Definition for Cant:

• To turn on the edge or corner: to tilt or toss suddenly.

Synonyms for Cant:

• n.

  •
  • dishonesty,
  • deception,
  • corruption,
  • smoke and mirrors,
  • duplicity,
  • guile,
  • humbug,
  • deceit,
  • foul play,
  • misconduct.
  •
  • rake,
  • heel,
  • rise,
  • straight.
  •bevel (noun)
  • bevel.
  •beveled (noun)
  • beveled.
  •buzzword (noun)
  • fuzzword,
  • doublespeak,
  • mediaspeak,
  • policyspeak.
  •cant (noun)
  • chamfer,
  • cant over,
  • inclined,
  • pious platitude.
  •dialect (noun)
  • localisms,
  • regionalisms,
  • provincialisms.
  •gobbledygook (noun)
  • amphigories.
  •grade (noun)
  • de-scent,
  • inclined planes,
  • up grade,
  • de scents,
  • up-grades,
  • de-scents,
  • up grades,
  • de scent.
  •hocus-pocus (noun)
  • Hocus,
  • nonsense,
  • incantation,
  • magic words,
  • Hocuspocus,
  • Occultism,
  • gobbledegook,
  • mummery,
  • Mummeries,
  • magic word.
  •hypocrisy (noun)
  • dis-honesty,
  • dis-play,
  • false professions,
  • dis-honesties,
  • doubledealing,
  • in-sincerities,
  • dis-plays,
  • dissimulations,
  • dis honesties,
  • dissemblings,
  • dis plays,
  • in sincerity,
  • dis-simulations,
  • dis play,
  • in-sincerity,
  • glibnesses,
  • pharisaicalnesses,
  • dis-simulation,
  • dis honesty,
  • dis simulations,
  • dis simulation,
  • bad faiths,
  • unctuousnesses,
  • in sincerities.
  •hypocritical statement (noun)
  • pretense,
  • pomposity,
  • insincerity,
  • sham holiness,
  • pretentiousness,
  • affected piety,
  • pecksniffery,
  • lip service,
  • show,
  • pious platitudes.
  •inclination (noun)
  • bendings.
  •incline (noun)
  • in clines,
  • in cline,
  • in-cline,
  • in-clines.
  •jargon (noun)
  • diction,
  • phraseology.
  •language (noun)
  • brogue,
  • inter-change,
  • langue,
  • verbalization,
  • lingua franca,
  • Brogues.
  •pitch (noun)
  • de grees,
  • steepnesses,
  • de-gree,
  • de gree,
  • de-grees.
  •sag (noun)
  • fall offs,
  • sinkages,
  • fall-offs,
  • downtrends,
  • falloffs.
  •sham (noun)
  • hypocriticalnesses,
  • pre tenses,
  • hypo-criticalnesses,
  • pre-tense,
  • puton,
  • pre texts,
  • pre-texts,
  • pre tense,
  • pre text,
  • pre-text,
  • pre-tends,
  • hypo-criticalness,
  • pseudi,
  • hypo criticalnesses,
  • pre tend,
  • pre tends,
  • hypo criticalness,
  • fakeries.
  •slang (noun)
  • informal speeches,
  • slanguage street talks.
  •slope (noun)
  • de flection,
  • rising grounds,
  • obliquenesses,
  • de-flection,
  • de flections,
  • de-flections.
  •talk (noun)
  • in-sinuation,
  • idle talks,
  • in-sinuations.
  •two-facedness (noun)
  • two facedness,
  • twofacedness.
  •vernacular (noun)
  • jive talks,
  • native tongues.
  •vocabulary (noun)
  • word-hoards,
  • word-stocks,
  • wordstock,
  • word stocks,
  • word hoards,
  • word hoard,
  • wordstocks,
  • wordbooks,
  • wordhoards.

• v.

  •intone (verb)
  • in-tone,
  • in toned,
  • in-toned,
  • re cites,
  • re citing,
  • in toning,
  • in-tones,
  • in tones,
  • in tone,
  • in-toning,
  • re cited,
  • re-cited,
  • re-cites.
  •lean (verb)
  • is off,
  • wert off,
  • de-clines,
  • fastening on,
  • wast off,
  • re posing,
  • re-posing,
  • fastens on,
  • rested on,
  • was off,
  • over-hang,
  • being slanted,
  • am slanted,
  • is slanted,
  • was slanted,
  • re-posed,
  • are slanted,
  • wast slanted,
  • re sting,
  • re posed,
  • were off,
  • de cline,
  • were slanted,
  • putting weight on,
  • de-cline,
  • am off,
  • over hang,
  • re-sting,
  • re-pose,
  • art slanted,
  • rests on,
  • puts weight on,
  • over hangs,
  • wert slanted,
  • re pose,
  • over-hanging,
  • de clines,
  • over-hangs,
  • being off,
  • fastened on.
  •lean, slant (verb)
  • careen,
  • angle,
  • recline.
  •motion (verb)
  • cant.
  •propel (verb)
  • sling,
  • bunt,
  • launch,
  • compel,
  • chuck,
  • bowl,
  • push,
  • goad,
  • pelt,
  • lob,
  • ram,
  • fire,
  • cast,
  • precipitate,
  • fling,
  • flick,
  • drive,
  • hurl,
  • propel,
  • thrust,
  • impel,
  • butt,
  • shove,
  • catapult,
  • shunt,
  • heave,
  • project,
  • prod,
  • toss.
  •recline (verb)
  • are recumbent,
  • lays down,
  • re clines,
  • wast recumbent,
  • art recumbent,
  • re cline,
  • re-cline,
  • am recumbent,
  • stretching out,
  • was recumbent,
  • were recumbent,
  • wert recumbent,
  • being recumbent,
  • re-clines,
  • is recumbent.
  •slant (verb)
  • de scending,
  • de-scends,
  • lies obliquely,
  • de-scended,
  • lied obliquely,
  • lying obliquely,
  • de-scend,
  • de scends,
  • de-scending,
  • lay obliquely,
  • de scended,
  • de scend.
  •slope (verb)
  • dropping away,
  • dropped away,
  • drops away,
  • dropt away.
  •throw (verb)
  • dis-lodged,
  • over-turning,
  • un horses,
  • de-livering,
  • de liver,
  • flinging off,
  • un seated,
  • de-liver,
  • dis lodged,
  • dis-lodges,
  • un horsed,
  • up-sets,
  • letted fly,
  • un horse,
  • over whelming,
  • dis charged,
  • dis charges,
  • dis-charged,
  • flings off,
  • over-whelmed,
  • flung off,
  • lets fly,
  • up sets,
  • un-horsed,
  • letting fly,
  • over turning,
  • lapidating,
  • up-set,
  • letted go,
  • dis lodging,
  • un-horsing,
  • up-setting,
  • de livers,
  • dis lodge,
  • over-turn,
  • over turns,
  • over-whelm,
  • un-horse,
  • dis-lodging,
  • up setting,
  • de livered,
  • dis-charging,
  • over whelm,
  • dis-charge,
  • over whelms,
  • de-livers,
  • dis charging,
  • un-seating,
  • dis charge,
  • over whelmed,
  • un-seated,
  • un seating,
  • dis lodges,
  • de-livered,
  • dis-charges,
  • un horsing,
  • over-whelming,
  • de livering,
  • un seat,
  • dis-lodge,
  • un-seat,
  • un-horses,
  • over-whelms.
  •tilt (verb)
  • sets an angle,
  • setting angle,
  • setting at an angle,
  • sets angle,
  • set angle,
  • sets at an angle,
  • sets at angle,
  • setting at angle,
  • set an angle,
  • set at angle,
  • setting an angle.
  •tip (verb)
  • toppling over,
  • up-turns,
  • up-turned,
  • un-loads,
  • up turning,
  • un loads,
  • toppled over,
  • up-ends,
  • up-ended,
  • up turns,
  • up-ending,
  • over setting,
  • un load,
  • up-turn,
  • un loading,
  • over-set,
  • up ends,
  • up ending,
  • up-turning,
  • over-sets,
  • un-load,
  • Oversetting,
  • oversets,
  • over-setting,
  • up turned,
  • top pled,
  • over sets,
  • up ended,
  • un loaded,
  • topples over.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • idiom,
  • terminology.
  •recline
  • stretched out,
  • laying down,
  • laid down,
  • stretch out,
  • be recumbent.
  •Other relevant words:
  • gibberish,
  • ADJ,
  • speak,
  • keel,
  • hill,
  • religiosity,
  • rigorous,
  • subterfuge,
  • fall off,
  • lay down,
  • spirited,
  • sink,
  • half truths,
  • fall away,
  • mumbo jumbo,
  • banking concern,
  • cant round,
  • sacerdotalism,
  • put back,
  • descent,
  • heavy,
  • jab,
  • put about,
  • discourteous,
  • Roup,
  • break,
  • charlatanism,
  • vulgar language,
  • dictionary,
  • snivel,
  • heel over,
  • Slopeness,
  • bear away,
  • diagonal,
  • tongue,
  • about ship,
  • ax,
  • maul,
  • jolt,
  • decline,
  • yaw,
  • expression,
  • Misdevotion,
  • battering ram,
  • thinly,
  • pronunciation,
  • pretence,
  • bat,
  • brutal,
  • ascent,
  • subtlety,
  • drop,
  • bump against,
  • alert,
  • upgrade,
  • jog,
  • monger,
  • code,
  • creole,
  • Bam,
  • Precisianism,
  • tack,
  • falseness,
  • arduous,
  • shift,
  • gear,
  • bend,
  • carom,
  • set going,
  • empty talk,
  • bring about,
  • ascend,
  • box off,
  • palaver,
  • misinformation,
  • lingua,
  • acclivity,
  • soft-soap,
  • garble,
  • liberate,
  • pious fraud,
  • sway,
  • prone,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • slenderly,
  • Charlatanry,
  • beat,
  • Sabbatarianism,
  • hook,
  • glossolalia,
  • go about,
  • jargoon,
  • odium theologicum,
  • crocodile tears,
  • encounter,
  • punch,
  • snuffle,
  • affectedness,
  • meaninglessness,
  • canned,
  • uprise,
  • lie along,
  • hammer,
  • Tilting,
  • furcation,
  • Religionism,
  • start,
  • blunt,
  • Flam,
  • tokenism,
  • deliver,
  • nonsensicality,
  • mall,
  • turn over,
  • terms,
  • curve,
  • perfidy,
  • Quillet,
  • fork,
  • cipher,
  • sheer,
  • blab,
  • mallet,
  • plug,
  • quodlibet,
  • gybe,
  • paralogism,
  • crank,
  • vulgar,
  • obstinacy,
  • oiliness,
  • sprightly,
  • Leanly,
  • quoin,
  • point,
  • sidle,
  • bifurcation,
  • idiolect,
  • crotchet,
  • prejudice,
  • jumble,
  • liable,
  • party line,
  • crookedness,
  • noun,
  • rammer,
  • degree,
  • vulgarity,
  • snuffling,
  • bad,
  • chevron,
  • angularity,
  • Jargonize,
  • swerve,
  • gay,
  • jesuitry,
  • Brae,
  • vertex,
  • jam,
  • impolite,
  • climb,
  • false piety,
  • serious,
  • shelve,
  • pietism,
  • save,
  • phrasing,
  • unction,
  • go downhill,
  • gammon,
  • apt,
  • set up,
  • bank building,
  • cajolery,
  • lip devotion,
  • technicality,
  • flail,
  • severe,
  • sophism,
  • shoulder,
  • bring round,
  • bevel square,
  • nook,
  • propaganda,
  • deceive,
  • vivacious,
  • mouth honor,
  • twist,
  • monkey,
  • bigotry,
  • quibble,
  • impinge,
  • fall,
  • Cannot,
  • pronounce,
  • piety,
  • zig,
  • totter,
  • term,
  • change course,
  • descend,
  • auction,
  • bear off,
  • ply,
  • urge,
  • grim,
  • inconsistency,
  • mouth,
  • hustle,
  • send,
  • savings bank,
  • scatology,
  • turn,
  • wear,
  • Colloquialize,
  • ell,
  • babble,
  • cede,
  • veer,
  • declivity,
  • come about,
  • technical term,
  • zigzag,
  • burr,
  • retreat,
  • turn back,
  • zag,
  • rude,
  • sloping,
  • coarse,
  • babel,
  • sky,
  • lip homage,
  • be hypocritical,
  • corner,
  • bright,
  • change the heading,
  • banking company,
  • foolish talk,
  • flip,
  • blandish,
  • solecism,
  • sharp,
  • mere words,
  • wobble,
  • coin,
  • elbow,
  • crude,
  • Elenchus,
  • shop,
  • flimflam,
  • slanted,
  • animated,
  • hollowness,
  • Justle,
  • bight,
  • flattery,
  • accent,
  • fan out,
  • outcry,
  • dogleg,
  • pretension,
  • seesaw,
  • apex,
  • consign,
  • wear ship,
  • bear to starboard,
  • auction sale,
  • crook,
  • Elench,
  • vendue,
  • downgrade,
  • Antilogy,
  • blue laws,
  • sale by auction,
  • abandon,
  • scramble,
  • lip reverence,
  • formalism,
  • distortion,
  • auction off,
  • piousness,
  • bear,
  • sloped,
  • keen,
  • stagger,
  • austerity,
  • back and fill,
  • quirk,
  • peddle,
  • boost,
  • cudgel,
  • jibe,
  • nomenclature,
  • fan,
  • depository financial institution,
  • common,
  • Mouthing,
  • decant,
  • weapon,
  • slantwise,
  • locutions,
  • words,
  • secret language,
  • play the hypocrite,
  • beat about,
  • Leaning Tower,
  • jostle,
  • Foin,
  • sweet-talk,
  • parlance,
  • Raked,
  • carry,
  • bring,
  • cryptogram,
  • speech,
  • hurtle,
  • lurch,
  • boom,
  • oscillate,
  • strict,
  • knee,
  • dip,
  • dissembling,
  • fallacy,
  • weighted,
  • flash,
  • money box,
  • wording,
  • lively,
  • auctioneer,
  • intense,
  • affectation,
  • inflection,
  • animate,
  • talus,
  • claptrap,
  • go uphill,
  • mount,
  • byword,
  • falsehood,
  • noise,
  • cast about,
  • jesuitism,
  • render,
  • cant hook,
  • Sabbatism,
  • slew,
  • uncouth,
  • mockery,
  • wind,
  • gross,
  • coin bank,
  • quackery,
  • greek,
  • Self-righteousness,
  • run against.

Paraphrases for Cant:

• Independent

  • Adverb
    ca.

Antonyms for Cant:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    ingenuousness, vertical, level, candor, transparency.

• n.

  • hypocritical statement
    openness, sincerity, standard, honesty, truthfulness, reality, truth, frankness.

• v.

  • lean, slant
    straighten.

Cant Sentence Examples:

• The superb pictures in the house are a silent protest against the cant of progress.

• She's very clear - headed, sharp, and clever; a hater of humbug, a despiser of cant.

Homophones for Cant:

• Can't, kant, kandt.

Hypernym for Cant:

• v.

  • motion
    cock.

Hyponym for Cant:

• v.

  • motion
    move.