What is another word for bear?

Pronunciation: [bˈe͡ə] (IPA)

There are many synonyms for the word "bear," including ursine, grizzly, bruin, and polar bear. Other synonyms include teddy bear, cub, and panda. The word "bear" can also be used to refer to someone who supports or endures a difficult or unpleasant situation, in which case synonyms might include carry, tolerate, endure, or sustain. As a verb, "bear" can mean to carry, convey, or support, making synonyms include transport, ferry, or haul. With so many synonyms, it's easy to find just the right word to convey the intended meaning when writing or speaking.

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Synonyms for Bear:

n.
- bar
- cub
- someone can't stand someone/something
- be burdened with something
- lift
- accord with
- amount to
- approximate
- bear/stand comparison (with)
- coincide
- correspond
- have something in common (with something)
- match
- parallel
- sourpuss
- answer to
- baptize
- be determined
- be tough
- call
- call after
- christen
- go by
- name
- name after
- number off
- over
- advance
- budge
- manhandle
- pass
- propel
- roll
- shunt
- baby shower
- owned
- accompanied
• animal
- bear
• assume
- assume
• bear
- behave
- birth
- contain
- deport
- endure
- hold
- pay
• bear in mind
- be mindful of
- consider
- keep in
- make a mental note
- mind
- note
- remember
- take into account
• bear out
- back up
- confirm
- corroborate
- demonstrate
- endorse
- justify
- prove
- ratify
- substantiate
- validate
- verify
- vindicate
- warrant
• bear up
- carry on
- cope
- keep your pecker up
- persevere
- soldier on
- withstand
• bear with
- forbear
- make allowances for
• boor
- philistine
• come in for
- come
• expect
- expect
• gestate
- gestate
• grouch
- cross patch
- cross patches
- cross-patch
- cross-patches
- crosspatches
• lawman
- police
• lout
- lout
- slob
• mammal
- Lynx
- alpaca
- antelope
- arctic fox
- beaver
- bison
- bobcat
- buffalo
- burro
- camel
- camelopard
- caribou
- cat
- cavy
- cheetah
- chinchilla
- chipmunk
- cougar
- cow
- coyote
- deer
- dingo
- dog
- donkey
- dromedary
- echidna
- elephant
- elk
- ermine
- ferret
- fox
- gazelle
- giraffe
- gnu
- goat
- gopher
- hamster
- hare
- hedgehog
- hippopotamus
- horse
- hyena
- ibex
- jackal
- jaguar
- kangaroo
- koala
- lemming
- leopard
- lion
- llama
- marmot
- mink
- mole
- mongoose
- moose
- mouse
- mule
- ocelot
- opossum
- otter
- ox
- panda
- panther
- pig
- platypus
- polecat
- porcupine
- possum
- puma
- rabbit
- raccoon
- rat
- reindeer
- rhinoceros
- sable
- sheep
- shrew
- skunk
- sloth
- squirrel
- stag
- stoat
- swine
- tiger
- wallaby
- weasel
- wolf
- wombat
- yak
- zebra
• policeman
- patrolman
- patrolwoman
v.
• abide
- linger
- tarry
• accept
- concurred with
- concurring with
- concurs with
- cooperated with
- cooperates with
- cooperating with
- deferring to
- defers to
- don't rock boat
- dont make waves
- dont rock boat
- dont rock the boat
- fits in
- fitted in
- fitting in
- gave go ahead
- gave go-ahead
- gave goahead
- gave green light
- gave nod
- gave stamp approval
- gave stamp of approval
- gave the go ahead
- gave the go-ahead
- gave the goahead
- gave the green light
- gave the nod
- give go ahead
- give goahead
- give stamp approval
- give the go ahead
- give the goahead
- gives go ahead
- gives go-ahead
- gives goahead
- gives green light
- gives nod
- gives stamp approval
- gives stamp of approval
- gives the go ahead
- gives the go-ahead
- gives the goahead
- gives the green light
- gives the nod
- giving go ahead
- giving go-ahead
- giving goahead
- giving green light
- giving nod
- giving stamp approval
- giving stamp of approval
- giving the go ahead
- giving the go-ahead
- giving the goahead
- giving the green light
- giving the nod
- lapping up
- laps up
- play game
- played game
- played the game
- playing game
- plays game
- plays the game
- re cognize
- re cognized
- re cognizes
- re cognizing
- re spect
- re spects
- re-cognize
- re-cognized
- re-cognizes
- re-cognizing
- re-spect
- re-spects
- rubber-stamped
- rubber-stamping
- rubberstamped
- rubberstamping
- rubberstamps
- sat still for
- sate still for
- sets store by
- setting store by
- signed off on
- signing off on
- signs off on
- signs on
- sits still for
- sitting still for
- submits to
- take one upon
- takes one on
- takes one up on
- takes one upon
- takes up on
- takes upon
- taking one on
- taking one up on
- taking one upon
- taking up on
- taking upon
- thumbsed up
- thumbses up
- thumbsing up
- took one on
- took one up on
- took one upon
- took up on
- took upon
- under take
- under taken
- under takes
- under taking
- under took
- under-take
- under-taken
- under-takes
- under-taking
- under-took
- yielded to
- yielding to
- yields to
• acquit
- de ported
- de porting
- de-ported
- de-porting
• afford
- am disposed to
- are able to
- are disposed to
- art able to
- being able to
- being disposed to
- had enough for
- had means for
- had the means for
- haddest enough for
- haddest means for
- haddest the means for
- hadst enough for
- hadst means for
- hadst the means for
- has enough for
- has means for
- has the means for
- hast enough for
- hast means for
- hast the means for
- hath enough for
- hath means for
- hath the means for
- have means for
- having enough for
- having means for
- having the means for
- in curred
- in curring
- in-curred
- in-curring
- is disposed to
- was able to
- was disposed to
- wast able to
- wast disposed to
- were able to
- were disposed to
- wert able to
- wert disposed to
• allow
- all owed
- all owing
- all-owed
- all-owing
- am big
- are big
- are game for
- art big
- art game for
- being game for
- freed up
- freeing up
- frees up
- gave a blank check
- gave blank check
- gave carte blanche
- gave leave
- give blank check
- gives a blank check
- gives blank check
- gives carte blanche
- gives leave
- gives permission
- giving a blank check
- giving blank check
- giving carte blanche
- giving leave
- giving permission
- granted permission
- granting permission
- grants permission
- held with
- holding with
- holds with
- is big
- is game for
- re lease
- re leases
- re leasing
- re-lease
- re-leased
- re-leases
- re-leasing
- takes kindly to
- taking kindly to
- took kindly to
- was big
- was game for
- wast big
- wast game for
- were big
- were game for
- wert big
- wert game for
• appertain
- am characteristic of
- am part of
- am pertinent
- am proper
- am relevant
- are characteristic of
- are part of
- are pertinent
- are proper
- are relevant
- art characteristic of
- art part of
- art pertinent
- art proper
- art relevant
- being characteristic of
- being part of
- being pertinent
- being proper
- being relevant
- had do with
- had to do with
- haddest do with
- haddest to do with
- hadst do with
- hadst to do with
- has do with
- has to do with
- hast do with
- hast to do with
- hath do with
- hath to do with
- have do with
- having do with
- is characteristic of
- is part of
- is pertinent
- is proper
- is relevant
- re late
- re-late
- re-lated
- touch up on
- touched up on
- touched upon
- touches up on
- touches upon
- touching up on
- touching upon
- was characteristic of
- was part of
- was pertinent
- was proper
- was relevant
- wast characteristic of
- wast part of
- wast pertinent
- wast proper
- wast relevant
- were characteristic of
- were part of
- were pertinent
- were proper
- were relevant
- wert characteristic of
- wert part of
- wert pertinent
- wert proper
- wert relevant
• approach
- am comparable to
- am like
- are comparable to
- are like
- art comparable to
- art like
- being comparable to
- being like
- bellied to
- bellied up to
- bellies to
- bellies up to
- belly to
- bellying to
- bellying up to
- came close
- catches up
- catching up
- closes in
- comes close
- compares with
- corresponded to
- corresponds to
- creeped up
- creeping up
- creeps up
- crept up
- gained on
- gains on
- goes toward
- going toward
- is comparable to
- is like
- looming up
- looms up
- moved in on
- moved on
- moved toward
- moves in on
- moves on
- moves toward
- moving in on
- moving on
- moving toward
- re ached
- re aching
- re-ached
- re-aching
- sur rounded
- sur rounding
- sur-rounded
- sur-rounding
- verge up on
- verged up on
- verged upon
- verges up on
- verges upon
- verging up on
- was comparable to
- was like
- wast comparable to
- wast like
- went toward
- were comparable to
- were like
- wert comparable to
- wert like
• attend
- am associated with
- am connected with
- are associated with
- are connected with
- art associated with
- art connected with
- being associated with
- being connected with
- is associated with
- is connected with
- issued from
- issues from
- issuing from
- made scene
- make scene
- makes scene
- makes the scene
- making scene
- making the scene
- occurred with
- occurring with
- occurs with
- was associated with
- was connected with
- wast associated with
- wast connected with
- were associated with
- were connected with
- wert associated with
- wert connected with
• belong
- am a component
- am a constituent
- am a part
- am adjunct of
- am akin
- am an adjunct of
- am component
- am constituent
- am linked with
- am part
- am related
- are a component
- are a constituent
- are a part
- are adjunct of
- are akin
- are an adjunct of
- are component
- are constituent
- are fitting
- are linked with
- are part
- are related
- art a component
- art a constituent
- art a part
- art adjunct of
- art akin
- art an adjunct of
- art component
- art constituent
- art fitting
- art linked with
- art part
- art related
- attaches to
- attaching to
- be adjunct of
- be came
- be come
- be comes
- be component
- be constituent
- be fits
- be longed
- be longing
- be longs
- be part
- be-came
- be-come
- be-comes
- be-coming
- be-fit
- be-fits
- be-fitted
- be-fitting
- be-long
- be-longed
- be-longing
- be-longs
- bear up on
- being a component
- being a constituent
- being a part
- being adjunct of
- being akin
- being an adjunct of
- being component
- being constituent
- being fitting
- being linked with
- being part
- being related
- going with
- had relationship to
- had respect to
- haddest relationship to
- haddest respect to
- hadst relationship to
- hadst respect to
- has relationship to
- has respect to
- hast relationship to
- hast respect to
- hath relationship to
- hath respect to
- having relationship to
- having respect to
- in heres
- in hering
- in-here
- in-heres
- in-hering
- is a component
- is a constituent
- is a part
- is adjunct of
- is akin
- is an adjunct of
- is component
- is constituent
- is linked with
- is part
- is related
- re gards
- re side
- re sided
- re sides
- re siding
- re-gard
- re-side
- re-sided
- re-sides
- re-siding
- was a component
- was a constituent
- was a part
- was adjunct of
- was akin
- was an adjunct of
- was component
- was constituent
- was fitting
- was linked with
- was part
- was related
- wast a component
- wast a constituent
- wast a part
- wast adjunct of
- wast akin
- wast an adjunct of
- wast component
- wast constituent
- wast fitting
- wast linked with
- wast part
- wast related
- were a component
- were a constituent
- were a part
- were adjunct of
- were akin
- were an adjunct of
- were component
- were constituent
- were fitting
- were linked with
- were part
- were related
- wert a component
- wert a constituent
- wert a part
- wert adjunct of
- wert akin
- wert an adjunct of
- wert component
- wert constituent
- wert fitting
- wert linked with
- wert part
- wert related
• brave
- faced off
- faces off
- facing off
- flew face of
- flew in face of
- flew in the face of
- flew the face of
- flies face of
- flies in face of
- flies in the face of
- flies the face of
- fly face of
- fly the face of
- flying face of
- flying in face of
- flying in the face of
- flying the face of
- out dare
- out dared
- out dares
- out daring
- out-dare
- out-dared
- out-dares
- out-daring
- outdared
- outdares
- outdaring
- standing up to
- stands to
- stands up to
- stood to
• breed
- be getting
- be gotten
- be-getting
- be-gotten
- brings forth
- brought forth
- giving birth to
- in duce
- in duces
- in-duce
- in-duces
- multi plying
- multi-plied
- multi-plying
- pro create
- pro created
- pro creates
- pro creating
- pro generate
- pro generated
- pro generates
- pro generating
- pro-create
- pro-created
- pro-creates
- pro-creating
- pro-generate
- pro-generated
- pro-generates
- pro-generating
- progenerated
- progenerates
- progenerating
• bring in
- Re-turn
- am worth
- are worth
- art worth
- being worth
- co sting
- co-sting
- is worth
- re turn
- re turning
- re turns
- re-turned
- re-turning
- re-turns
- was worth
- wast worth
- were worth
- wert worth
• come to grips with
- come grips with
- go mat
- go the mat
- go to mat
- goes mat
- goes the mat
- goes to mat
- goes to the mat
- going mat
- going the mat
- going to mat
- going to the mat
- went mat
- went the mat
- went to mat
- went to the mat
• conduct
- be have
- be haves
- be having
- be-have
- be-haves
- be-having
- de mean
- de meaning
- de means
- de-mean
- de-meaning
- de-means
• consort
- be friend
- be friended
- be friending
- be-friend
- be-friended
- be-friending
- be-friends
- chummed together
- chummed with
- chumming together
- chumming with
- chums together
- chums with
- cliqued with
- cliques with
- cliquing with
- gang with
- ganged up with
- ganged with
- ganging up with
- ganging with
- gangs up with
- gangs with
- goes around with
- going around with
- hanged around with
- hanged out with
- hanged with
- hanging around with
- hanging out with
- hanging with
- hangs around with
- hangs out with
- hangs with
- hung around with
- hung out with
- hung with
- keeps company
- palled around with
- palled with
- palling around with
- palling with
- pals around with
- pals with
- ran around with
- running around with
- running with
- runs around with
- runs with
- takes up with
- takes with
- taking up with
- taking with
- tie with
- tied up with
- tied with
- ties up with
- ties with
- took up with
- took with
- tying up with
- tying with
- went around with
• convey
- dis patch
- dis patched
- dis patches
- dis patching
- dis-patch
- dis-patched
- dis-patches
- dis-patching
• convoy
- de fend
- de fended
- de fending
- de fends
- de-fend
- de-fended
- de-fending
- de-fends
• crowd
- Justled
- Justling
- de luge
- de luged
- de luges
- de luging
- de-luge
- de-luged
- de-luges
- de-luging
- justles
- over crowd
- over crowded
- over crowding
- over crowds
- over-crowd
- over-crowded
- over-crowds
- pack em in
- packed 'em in
- packed em in
- packing 'em in
- packing em in
- packing like sardines
- packs 'em in
- packs em in
- packs like sardines
- sardining
- topping off
- tops off
• deliver
- accouched
- accouches
- accouching
- came across with
- comes across with
- coming across with
- de liver
- de livered
- de livering
- de livers
- de-liver
- de-livered
- de-livering
- de-livers
- dis tribute
- dis tributes
- dis-tribute
- dis-tributes
- forked over
- forking over
- forks over
- gimmed
- gimmes
- gimming
- hand carried
- hand carries
- hand carry
- hand carrying
- hand-carried
- hand-carries
- hand-carrying
- handcarried
- handcarries
- handcarry
- handcarrying
- pro vide
- pro vided
- pro vides
- pro viding
- pro-vide
- pro-vided
- pro-vides
- pro-viding
• do
- acquits oneself
- acquitted oneself
- acquitting oneself
- came like
- came on like
- come like
- comes like
- comes on like
- coming like
- coming on like
- dis course
- dis coursed
- dis courses
- dis coursing
- dis-course
- dis-coursed
- dis-courses
- dis-coursing
- gets by
- pre sent
- pre-sent
- pre-sents
- render role
- rendered role
- rendered the role
- rendering role
- rendering the role
- renders role
- renders the role
- staggered along
- staggering along
- staggers along
• encounter
- alight up on
- alighted up on
- alighted upon
- alighting up on
- alighting upon
- alights up on
- alights upon
- alit up on
- alit upon
- bump in to
- chance up on
- chanced up on
- chanced upon
- chances up on
- chances upon
- chancing up on
- chancing upon
- come up on
- cross path
- crossed path
- crossed the path
- crosses path
- crosses the path
- crossing path
- crossing the path
- fall with
- falling in with
- falling with
- falls in with
- falls with
- fell in with
- fell with
- hit up on
- hits up on
- hits upon
- hitting up on
- hitting upon
- meeting up with
- meeting with
- meets up with
- meets with
- met up with
- ran across
- ran in to
- ran smack in to
- ran smack into
- rubbed eyeballs
- rubbing eyeballs
- rubs eyeballs
- run in to
- run smack in to
- running across
- running in to
- running smack in to
- running smack into
- runs across
- runs in to
- runs smack in to
- runs smack into
• escort
- consorted with
- consorting with
- consorts with
• face
- am confronted by
- are confronted by
- art confronted by
- being confronted by
- bits bullet
- bits the bullet
- bitted bullet
- bitted the bullet
- bitting bullet
- bitting the bullet
- copes with
- goes against
- goes up against
- going against
- going up against
- grappled with
- grapples with
- grappling with
- is confronted by
- made a stand
- made stand
- make stand
- makes a stand
- makes stand
- making a stand
- making stand
- squares off
- take bull by horns
- take the bull by horns
- takes bull by horns
- takes bull by the horns
- takes the bull by horns
- takes the bull by the horns
- taking bull by horns
- taking bull by the horns
- taking the bull by horns
- taking the bull by the horns
- took bull by horns
- took bull by the horns
- took the bull by horns
- took the bull by the horns
- was confronted by
- wast confronted by
- went against
- went up against
- were confronted by
- wert confronted by
• ferry
- moved across
- moves across
- moving across
• fetch
- am sold for
- are sold for
- art sold for
- being sold for
- bringing to
- brings back
- brings to
- brought to
- draws forth
- drew forth
- is sold for
- selling for
- sells for
- sold for
- was sold for
- wast sold for
- were sold for
- wert sold for
• generate
- bring pass
- intro duce
- intro duces
- intro-duce
- intro-duces
• go
- consenting to
- consents to
• go on
- held on
- holding on
- keeping on
- keeps on
- kept on
• grieve
- ate heart out
- ate one heart out
- ate one's heart out
- ate ones heart out
- be moan
- be moaned
- be moaning
- be moans
- be wail
- be wailed
- be wailing
- be wails
- be-moan
- be-moaned
- be-moaning
- be-moans
- be-wail
- be-wailed
- be-wailing
- be-wails
- cried a river
- cried river
- cries a river
- cries river
- cry river
- crying a river
- crying river
- eat one heart out
- eat ones heart out
- eating heart out
- eating one heart out
- eating one's heart out
- eating ones heart out
- eats heart out
- eats one heart out
- eats one's heart out
- eats ones heart out
- hanged crepe
- hanging crepe
- hangs crepe
- hung crepe
- sang blues
- sang the blues
- sing blues
- singing blues
- sings blues
- sings the blues
- sung blues
- sung the blues
- take hard
- takes hard
- takes it hard
- taking hard
- taking it hard
- took hard
- took it hard
• hang tough
- am patient with
- are patient with
- art patient with
- bare brunt
- bare the brunt
- beared brunt
- beared the brunt
- bearing brunt
- bearing the brunt
- bears brunt
- bears the brunt
- being patient with
- bore brunt
- bore the brunt
- grin bear it
- grinned and bear it
- grinned bear it
- grinning and bear it
- grinning bear it
- grins and bear it
- grins bear it
- gut out
- guts it out
- guts out
- gutted it out
- gutted out
- gutting it out
- gutting out
- is patient with
- lived out
- lives out
- living out
- living through
- nevered say die
- nevering say die
- nevers say die
- rid out
- rides out
- riding out
- rode out
- sat through
- sate through
- sits through
- sitting through
- stick there
- sticked in there
- sticked it out
- sticked there
- sticking in there
- sticking it out
- sticking there
- sticks in there
- sticks it out
- sticks there
- stuck in there
- stuck it out
- stuck there
- toughed it out
- toughed out
- toughing it out
- toughing out
- toughs it out
- toughs out
- was patient with
- wast patient with
- were patient with
- wert patient with
• hatch
- de sign
- de signed
- de signing
- de signs
- de vise
- de vised
- de vising
- de-sign
- de-signed
- de-signing
- de-signs
- de-vise
- de-vised
- de-vising
- gave birth
- gives birth
- laid eggs
- laying eggs
- pre pare
- pre pared
- pre pares
- pre paring
- pre-pare
- pre-pared
- pre-paring
- spitballed
- spitballing
- thinking up
- thinks up
- threw together
- throwing together
- throws together
- trumping up
- trumps up
• have
- gat hands on
- gat hold of
- gets hands on
- gets hold of
- getting hands on
- got hands on
- gotten hands on
- gotten hold of
- had hand
- had in hand
- haddest hand
- haddest in hand
- hadst hand
- hadst in hand
- has hand
- has in hand
- hast hand
- hast in hand
- hath hand
- hath in hand
- have hand
- having hand
- having in hand
- latch to
- latched on to
- latched to
- latches on to
- latches to
- latching on to
- latching to
- pro cure
- pro cured
- pro cures
- pro curing
- pro-cure
- pro-cured
- pro-cures
- pro-curing
- re tain
- re tains
- re-tain
- re-tains
- sat on
- sate on
- sits on
- teemed with
- teems with
• head
- fix
- vector
• hold
- shores up
- under pinned
- under pinning
- under pins
- under-pin
- under-pinned
- under-pinning
- under-pins
- up held
- up hold
- up holding
- up holds
- up-held
- up-hold
- up-holding
- up-holds
• include
- allowed for
- allows for
- am composed of
- am made of
- am made up of
- are composed of
- art composed of
- art made of
- art made up of
- being composed of
- being made of
- being made up of
- builded in
- built in
- cut on
- cuts in on
- cuts on
- cutting in on
- cutting on
- in corporate
- in corporates
- in sert
- in-corporate
- in-corporates
- in-sert
- is made of
- is made up of
- made allowance for
- made room for
- makes allowance for
- makes room for
- making room for
- numbered among
- numbering among
- numbers among
- take in to account
- takes into account
- was composed of
- was made of
- was made up of
- wast composed of
- wast made of
- wast made up of
- were composed of
- were made of
- were made up of
- wert composed of
- wert made of
- wert made up of
- working in
- works in
- wrought in
• invent
- bring in to being
- bringing in to being
- bringing into being
- brings in to being
- brings into being
- brought in to being
- dis cover
- dis covered
- dis covering
- dis covers
- dis-cover
- dis-covered
- dis-covering
- dis-covers
- in vent
- in vented
- in venting
- in vents
- in-vent
- in-vented
- in-venting
- in-vents
- off the cuffed
- off the cuffing
- off the cuffs
- off-the-cuffed
- off-the-cuffing
- off-the-cuffs
- tosses off
- tossing off
- tost off
• jam-pack
- jam pack
• lay
- bringing forward
- brings forward
- de posit
- de posited
- de positing
- de posits
- de-posit
- de-posited
- de-positing
- de-posits
- putting forward
• load
- containerizes
- containerizing
- heaped up
- heaps up
- over supplied
- over supplies
- over supply
- over supplying
- over-supplied
- over-supplying
- oversupplying
- piled it on
- piled on
- piles it on
- piles on
- piling it on
- poured in
- pouring in
- pours in
- puts aboard
- putting aboard
- rammed in
- ramming in
- rams in
• lug
- Vellicated
- vellicates
• make
- arrive time
- arrived in time
- arrived time
- arrives at
- arrives in time
- arrives time
- arriving in time
- arriving time
- brake for
- breaking for
- breaks for
- broke for
- gat to
- gotten to
- lit out
- sets out
Other synonyms:

•

•

climb

•

•

come up

•

bloom
blossom
bud
choke
fade
rich

•

burn
feel
give up to
let yourself go
overflow
tingle
walk away with

•

doll
dolly
press
push

•

•

open

•

•

drop

•

close

•

•

•

flower
gain
market
raid
scan
uphold
world

•

get in
grow
premium
seed
term

•

•

float
issue
trade

•

crash
develop

Other relevant words:

• abide

• accompany

attend

• acquit

perform
performs

• afford

• appertain

• approach

• behave

comport

• belong

Residing
attach to
attached to
be a component