948 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ dˈɛskant], [ dˈɛskant], [ d_ˈɛ_s_k_a_n_t]

Similar words for descant:

• air (noun)
• communication (noun)
• descant (noun)
• discourse (noun)
• hymn (noun)
• melody (noun)
• monologue (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• talk (noun)
• tune (noun)
• chant (verb)
• discourse (verb)
• discuss (verb)
• narrate (verb)
• other relevant words (verb)
• ramble (verb)
• sing (verb)
• speak (verb)
• other synonyms
• discourse
• other relevant words
• speak
• other relevant words (noun)

Homophones for descant

Hyponyms for descant

Synonyms for Descant:

• n.

  •
  • coda,
  • flourish,
  • crescendo.
  • air (noun)
  • song.
  • communication (noun)
  • discant,
  • descant.
  • descant (noun)
  • warble.
  • discourse (noun)
  • remark,
  • speakings,
  • verbalization,
  • gabfests,
  • thesis,
  • gabfest,
  • discussion,
  • criticism,
  • memoir,
  • Sermons,
  • review,
  • Tractate.
  • hymn (noun)
  • littanies,
  • worship songs,
  • song praise.
  • melody (noun)
  • diapason,
  • musicality,
  • melodiousness,
  • Melodies,
  • strain,
  • tunefulness,
  • assonances,
  • assonance,
  • lyrics,
  • euphony.
  • monologue (noun)
  • stand-up bit.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • oratorio,
  • choral,
  • chorale,
  • falsetto,
  • Alleluia,
  • backup,
  • lied,
  • expatiation,
  • monologue,
  • evensongs,
  • song of praise,
  • screed,
  • melody,
  • Falsettos,
  • screeds,
  • evensong,
  • accompaniment,
  • peroration,
  • Melodia,
  • chalk talk,
  • Lieder,
  • support,
  • perorations,
  • singers,
  • talk,
  • alleluias,
  • worship song,
  • oratorios,
  • littany,
  • canticle,
  • Canticles,
  • psalm,
  • coloraturas,
  • hallelujah,
  • soprano,
  • music,
  • air,
  • hosanna,
  • musical accompaniment,
  • hallelujahs,
  • Hosannas,
  • trebles,
  • hymn,
  • tune,
  • coloratura,
  • chorales,
  • chorals.
  • talk (noun)
  • expatiations,
  • re citation,
  • pre-lections,
  • re-citations,
  • re citations,
  • re-citation,
  • pre-lection,
  • chalk talks,
  • pre lections,
  • pre lection.
  • tune (noun)
  • melodias.

• v.

  • chant (verb)
  • in tones,
  • de-scanting,
  • in-toned,
  • cantillates,
  • de scanting,
  • cantillating,
  • re cite,
  • re-cites,
  • in-tones,
  • in toning,
  • re-citing,
  • in-tone,
  • re cites,
  • in-toning,
  • re-cited,
  • Doxologizing,
  • doxologizes,
  • re-cite,
  • cantillated,
  • re citing,
  • re cited,
  • chorusses,
  • de scanted,
  • in toned,
  • in tone,
  • Doxologized,
  • de-scanted.
  • discourse (verb)
  • dis-coursed,
  • dissertates,
  • holds forth,
  • dilates up on,
  • ex pounded,
  • de bates,
  • de claimed,
  • disserting,
  • ex plain,
  • dilated upon,
  • giving meeting,
  • ex pound,
  • dissertating,
  • ex-plain,
  • disserted,
  • dilates upon,
  • re-marked,
  • dis sert,
  • ex-pound,
  • de claiming,
  • gives a meeting,
  • gave a meeting,
  • ex-plains,
  • gave meeting,
  • dis-sert,
  • de bate,
  • ex pounding,
  • de-claims,
  • ex-plained,
  • ex plained,
  • ex plaining,
  • ex pounds,
  • ex-pounding,
  • de bated,
  • de-bated,
  • giving a meeting,
  • de claims,
  • dilated up on,
  • de claim,
  • ex-pounded,
  • de-bate,
  • de bating,
  • gives meeting,
  • de-bating,
  • dilate up on,
  • de-claim,
  • re-marks,
  • dis coursing,
  • dissertated,
  • de-bates,
  • dis coursed,
  • disserts,
  • re marks,
  • re marking,
  • re-marking,
  • dis-coursing,
  • dilating up on,
  • dilating upon,
  • ex-plaining,
  • ex plains,
  • de-claimed,
  • de-claiming,
  • re mark,
  • ex-pounds,
  • re marked.
  • discuss (verb)
  • consulted with,
  • hashed over,
  • kicked about,
  • groupthinking,
  • consults with,
  • puts heads together,
  • de liberating,
  • discoursed about,
  • discoursing about,
  • exchanging views on,
  • bouncing off,
  • putting heads together,
  • re views,
  • thrashing out,
  • thrashed out,
  • de liberate,
  • hashing over,
  • compares notes,
  • dis cusses,
  • re viewing,
  • de-liberate,
  • dis-cuss,
  • de-liberated,
  • groupthinked,
  • re-views,
  • dis-cussing,
  • discepts,
  • discourses about,
  • re view,
  • dis cussing,
  • discepted,
  • tosses around,
  • exchanged views on,
  • discepting,
  • groupthinks,
  • dis cept,
  • kicks about,
  • hashes over,
  • de liberates,
  • compared notes,
  • de liberated,
  • tost around,
  • re viewed,
  • de-liberates,
  • dis-cusses,
  • tossing around,
  • re-view,
  • dis cuss,
  • consulting with,
  • exchanges views on,
  • reasoning about,
  • de-liberating,
  • reasons about,
  • reasoned about,
  • bounces off,
  • kicking about,
  • comparing notes,
  • re-viewed,
  • go in to,
  • thrashes out,
  • bounced off,
  • dis-cept,
  • dis-cussed,
  • dis cussed.
  • narrate (verb)
  • pro claims,
  • re peats,
  • pro claim,
  • dis closing,
  • de lineated,
  • re-lated,
  • re-hearse,
  • gives account of,
  • un folded,
  • un fold,
  • dis closes,
  • dis-closing,
  • re-counts,
  • re-hearses,
  • gave account of,
  • pro claiming,
  • makes known,
  • giving an account of,
  • re-porting,
  • give account of,
  • pro claimed,
  • re porting,
  • re-peat,
  • de-lineated,
  • un-folding,
  • sets forth,
  • dis-closes,
  • tells a story,
  • un folds,
  • de pict,
  • re-counted,
  • de lineate,
  • re-peats,
  • tells story,
  • re-counting,
  • re-veals,
  • re hearses,
  • telling a story,
  • un-folded,
  • un-folds,
  • re veals,
  • told a story,
  • dis-closed,
  • giving account of,
  • gave an account of,
  • de-picts,
  • dis close,
  • re late,
  • re counting,
  • re-veal,
  • re-ported,
  • telling story,
  • de picts,
  • dis-close,
  • dis closed,
  • pro-claiming,
  • told story,
  • re peat,
  • re counts,
  • de-lineate,
  • pro-claims,
  • gives an account of,
  • de-pict,
  • re ported,
  • un folding,
  • re counted,
  • un-fold.
  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • comment,
  • talk about,
  • discourse.
  • ramble (verb)
  • goes on and on,
  • got subject,
  • beating around bush,
  • going on and on,
  • gotten subject,
  • rants rave,
  • get subject,
  • gotten off the subject,
  • going and on,
  • go on on,
  • go and on,
  • gets off the subject,
  • got off the subject,
  • talks off top head,
  • ranting rave,
  • talks off top of head,
  • go tangent,
  • gets subject,
  • pro tracts,
  • ex-cursed,
  • de-part,
  • de parts,
  • rattled on,
  • excursing,
  • ex-curse,
  • gat off subject,
  • talks randomly,
  • goes off tangent,
  • talked off top of head,
  • going on on,
  • talking off top of head,
  • going off tangent,
  • de part,
  • ranted and rave,
  • gotten the subject,
  • talking randomly,
  • ex-cursing,
  • pro-tract,
  • rant rave,
  • getting the subject,
  • Prosed,
  • go on tangent,
  • being diffuse,
  • is diffuse,
  • going off on tangent,
  • getting off the subject,
  • losing thread,
  • got off subject,
  • excursed,
  • de-parted,
  • getting off subject,
  • were diffuse,
  • went off on tangent,
  • got the subject,
  • lost the thread,
  • losing the thread,
  • beats around bush,
  • pro tract,
  • ranted rave,
  • going on tangent,
  • goes tangent,
  • gotten off subject,
  • de-parting,
  • art diffuse,
  • went tangent,
  • talks top head,
  • went and on,
  • talked nonsense,
  • talks top of head,
  • rants and rave,
  • talks nonsense,
  • getting subject,
  • pro-tracts,
  • ex cursing,
  • goes off on tangent,
  • went on tangent,
  • goes on tangent,
  • loses thread,
  • de parted,
  • talked top head,
  • talked top of head,
  • get off subject,
  • went on and on,
  • wert diffuse,
  • gat the subject,
  • ranting and rave,
  • talk top head,
  • gets off subject,
  • lost thread,
  • rattles on,
  • de-parts,
  • talked off top head,
  • went off tangent,
  • talked randomly,
  • goes and on,
  • ex-curses,
  • gat off the subject,
  • goes on on,
  • talk off top head,
  • loses the thread,
  • go off tangent,
  • was diffuse,
  • talk top of head,
  • going tangent,
  • ex cursed,
  • get the subject,
  • wast diffuse,
  • went on on,
  • talking top head,
  • de parting,
  • gat subject,
  • lose thread,
  • ex curse,
  • talking nonsense,
  • gets the subject,
  • are diffuse,
  • am diffuse,
  • ex curses,
  • talking off top head,
  • talking top of head.
  • sing (verb)
  • bursted into song,
  • lullabying,
  • re sounding,
  • making melody,
  • lifting up a voice,
  • re sounds,
  • singsonging,
  • canarying,
  • lifted voice,
  • choiring,
  • dueted,
  • lift up voice,
  • lifted up voice,
  • bursts in to song,
  • lifted up a voice,
  • lifts up a voice,
  • belts out,
  • lifting up voice,
  • lined out,
  • makes melody,
  • lullabied,
  • canaried,
  • bursts into song,
  • burst in to song,
  • lining out,
  • re sound,
  • lifts a voice,
  • Re-sound,
  • lifts up voice,
  • lines out,
  • lift a voice,
  • re-sounded,
  • lifting voice,
  • re-sounding,
  • lifted a voice,
  • belting out,
  • lift voice,
  • lifts voice,
  • lifting a voice,
  • bursting in to song,
  • bursting into song,
  • re-sounds,
  • bursted in to song,
  • belted out,
  • dueting,
  • made melody.
  • speak (verb)
  • opening one mouth,
  • de clares,
  • opened one's mouth,
  • speaks one's piece,
  • breaking silence,
  • opening ones mouth,
  • ex-press,
  • opens mouth,
  • makes public,
  • de-clare,
  • opening one's mouth,
  • opened ones mouth,
  • brake silence,
  • put in to words,
  • speak piece,
  • de livers,
  • putting into words,
  • broke silence,
  • opening mouth,
  • speaking piece,
  • spoke one's piece,
  • de-livered,
  • yakketyyak,
  • puts into words,
  • yakkety yakked,
  • yakketyyakked,
  • breaks silence,
  • speaks one piece,
  • spoke ones piece,
  • speak one piece,
  • popping off,
  • de livering,
  • de-livers,
  • open ones mouth,
  • ex-pressing,
  • speaks piece,
  • de liver,
  • ex pressed,
  • de clare,
  • speaking ones piece,
  • speaking one piece,
  • speaks ones piece,
  • yakkety yakking,
  • spoke one piece,
  • yakketyyakking,
  • open one mouth,
  • de livered,
  • spoke piece,
  • speaking one's piece,
  • spake piece,
  • spake one piece,
  • spake one's piece,
  • opens one's mouth,
  • opened mouth,
  • yakkety-yaks,
  • ex pressing,
  • putting in to words,
  • yakketyyaks,
  • spake ones piece,
  • yakkety yaks,
  • opens one mouth,
  • ex press,
  • de-liver,
  • yakkety-yakking,
  • de-clares,
  • de-livering,
  • opens ones mouth,
  • opened one mouth,
  • yakkety-yakked,
  • puts in to words,
  • pops off,
  • speak ones piece.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • phrase,
  • leitmotif,
  • overture,
  • middle eight,
  • voluntary,
  • reprise,
  • theme,
  • counterpoint,
  • cadence,
  • signature,
  • excerpt,
  • prelude,
  • rest,
  • part,
  • sample,
  • breakbeat,
  • harmony,
  • riff,
  • repeat,
  • vocal,
  • loop,
  • arpeggio.
  •
  • line,
  • suite,
  • motif,
  • lick,
  • movement.
  •
  • piece.
  • discourse
  • Re-mark,
  • holding forth,
  • harangue,
  • give meeting,
  • Lectured,
  • held forth,
  • commentates,
  • give a meeting,
  • commentated,
  • Dissert,
  • commentating,
  • dissertate,
  • expound,
  • dilate upon,
  • commentate,
  • hold forth.
  • Other relevant words:
  • choir,
  • yodel,
  • compare notes,
  • drone,
  • thrash out,
  • moots,
  • Chorused,
  • lullaby,
  • ramble,
  • sing,
  • singsonged,
  • burst into song,
  • rattling on,
  • Altercated,
  • moot,
  • Hymned,
  • bounce off,
  • go astray,
  • canaries,
  • go on and on,
  • Mooting,
  • get together,
  • kick about,
  • tell a story,
  • ventilate,
  • belt out,
  • discuss,
  • soloing,
  • blathering,
  • choired,
  • Altercating,
  • singing,
  • goes astray,
  • Trolling,
  • Doxologize,
  • Mooted,
  • solo,
  • set forth,
  • hash over,
  • cantillate,
  • get off the subject,
  • chant,
  • toss around,
  • altercates,
  • Blathered,
  • give an account of,
  • narrate,
  • going astray,
  • talk off top of head,
  • Carolled,
  • Serenaded,
  • Purred,
  • line out,
  • Trolled,
  • beat around bush,
  • lift up a voice,
  • speak,
  • rant and rave,
  • went astray,
  • reason about,
  • Caroled,
  • Excurse,
  • setting forth,
  • Mouthed,
  • canary,
  • Prosing,
  • made known,
  • tossed around,
  • talk randomly,
  • rattle on,
  • discourse about,
  • singsongs,
  • singsong,
  • lose the thread,
  • knock around,
  • make known,
  • excurses,
  • Solos,
  • Carolling,
  • Discept,
  • Hymning,
  • groupthink,
  • Chorusing,
  • Purring,
  • tell story,
  • exchange views on,
  • caroling,
  • go off on tangent,
  • Serenading,
  • altercate,
  • consult with,
  • talk nonsense,
  • make melody,
  • put heads together,
  • choirs,
  • be diffuse,
  • soloed,
  • making known.
  • speak
  • yakkety yak,
  • spoke,
  • open mouth,
  • making public,
  • spieled,
  • open one's mouth,
  • put into words,
  • made public,
  • Lipping,
  • lipped,
  • speak one's piece,
  • yakkety-yak,
  • pop off,
  • popped off,
  • make public,
  • Gassed,
  • break silence,
  • spieling,
  • gassing.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • introduction,
  • develop,
  • clarify,
  • aggrandize,
  • twitter,
  • harmonization,
  • ode,
  • Sol-fa,
  • hum,
  • air varie,
  • serenade,
  • critique,
  • dissertation,
  • article,
  • commentary,
  • paper,
  • declaim,
  • homily,
  • exclusive,
  • measure,
  • extend,
  • treat,
  • chirrup,
  • circumstantial,
  • exercise,
  • enlarged,
  • Canzonet,
  • run out on,
  • treatise,
  • paean,
  • examination,
  • poesy,
  • survey,
  • address,
  • plainsong,
  • lucubration,
  • opus,
  • exposition,
  • plainchant,
  • sonata,
  • exaggerate,
  • unfold,
  • criticize,
  • itemized,
  • remark upon,
  • private,
  • croon,
  • incidental music,
  • stress,
  • careful,
  • intonate,
  • Undersong,
  • dilate,
  • voice,
  • cantus,
  • explicate,
  • set out,
  • express,
  • touch upon,
  • trill,
  • rant,
  • particularized,
  • exquisite,
  • meticulous,
  • specific,
  • effort,
  • continuo,
  • round,
  • treatment,
  • advance,
  • paragraph,
  • solmizate,
  • understand,
  • instrumental music,
  • work,
  • absolute music,
  • inquire into,
  • recite,
  • full,
  • around,
  • enlarge,
  • breed,
  • orate,
  • write up,
  • adaptation,
  • chamber music,
  • annotation,
  • refrain,
  • inflate,
  • render,
  • tract,
  • apercu,
  • etude,
  • melodic line,
  • deliver,
  • tweedle,
  • sermon,
  • bassus,
  • consult,
  • illustrate,
  • sermonize,
  • contralto,
  • special,
  • anthem,
  • essay,
  • nocturne,
  • poem,
  • detail,
  • note,
  • lilt,
  • delicate,
  • lecture,
  • specialize,
  • canto,
  • expatiate,
  • relate at large,
  • ricercar,
  • elaborate,
  • treble,
  • variation,
  • string orchestra,
  • aleatory,
  • chirp,
  • approximately,
  • do-re-mi,
  • twit,
  • preliminary study,
  • chorus,
  • handle,
  • basso continuo,
  • luxuriant,
  • roulade,
  • program music,
  • tweedledee,
  • lay,
  • ground bass,
  • tenor,
  • branch out,
  • converse,
  • feature,
  • vocalise,
  • aim,
  • disquisition,
  • ditty,
  • Sonatina,
  • plain song,
  • term paper,
  • sketch,
  • Prolegomenon,
  • monody,
  • whistle,
  • vamp,
  • basso ostinato,
  • rehearse in extenso,
  • aleatory music,
  • read,
  • stretch,
  • trio,
  • theme and variations,
  • shake,
  • causerie,
  • expand,
  • research paper,
  • criticise,
  • monograph,
  • construe,
  • elucidate,
  • thorough bass,
  • figured bass,
  • tax,
  • part song,
  • particularize,
  • say,
  • dirge,
  • personal,
  • accurate,
  • aria,
  • outline,
  • close,
  • baritone,
  • poetry,
  • Ritornello,
  • meliorate,
  • mantra,
  • minstrel,
  • excursus,
  • comment upon,
  • detailed,
  • evolve,
  • carol,
  • study,
  • interpret,
  • deal with,
  • hyperbolic,
  • composition,
  • production,
  • vocalize,
  • yodeling,
  • work out,
  • score,
  • ballad,
  • descriptive,
  • bass,
  • chamber orchestra,
  • particular,
  • struggle,
  • alto,
  • argue,
  • go into,
  • thorough,
  • intone,
  • enlarge upon,
  • tremolo,
  • quaver,
  • sonnet,
  • electronic music,
  • invention,
  • verse,
  • amplify,
  • pronounce,
  • orchestration,
  • roughly,
  • string quartet,
  • troll,
  • colloquy,
  • arrangement,
  • pipe,
  • Pandect,
  • shade,
  • voice part,
  • tone,
  • morceau.

Homophones for Descant:

• decant, discant, dehiscent, detachment, Deoxygenate, desiccant, desquamate, desmid, dignity, designated, decimate, dockhand, dachshund, deckhand, disseminate, duty assignment, disunite, discount, disunity, Dika Nut, descent, dismount, disjoined, discussant, dig into, dissonate, designate, discommode, disjointed, doughnut, Docent, dissonant, descend, dismayed, dissent, document, documented, disowned, Djanet, designed, disjoint, decent, disownment, Desmond Tutu, disunited.

Hyponym for Descant:

• n.

  • communication
    backup, accompaniment, support, musical accompaniment.

• v.

  • communication
    discourse, talk about, discuss.
  • creation
    sing.