Definition for Jellyfish:

• any of numerous usually marine and free- swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

Synonyms for Jellyfish:

• adj.

  •apprehensive (adjective)
  • concerned,
  • alarmed,
  • disquieted,
  • jumpy,
  • stiff,
  • weak,
  • uptight,
  • doubtful,
  • afraid,
  • foreboding,
  • jittery,
  • lily-livered,
  • uncertain,
  • hung up,
  • frozen,
  • suspicious.
  •frightened (adjective)
  • anxious,
  • aghast,
  • scared stiff,
  • mousy,
  • cowed,
  • unnerved,
  • panicky,
  • terrorized,
  • terror-stricken,
  • in a panic,
  • fearful,
  • startled,
  • abashed,
  • shivery,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • spooked,
  • dismayed,
  • rabbity,
  • numb,
  • petrified,
  • Affrighted,
  • terrified,
  • having kittens,
  • sissy,
  • pushing the panic button.

• n.

  •Portuguese man-of-war (noun)
  • portuguese man-of-war.
  •
  • humpback,
  • coral.
  •animal (noun)
  • man-of-war,
  • jellyfish.
  •coward (noun)
  • caitiff,
  • gutless,
  • deserter,
  • malingerer,
  • quitter,
  • rabbit,
  • pessimist,
  • cur,
  • sneak,
  • yellow,
  • alarmist,
  • shirk,
  • craven,
  • funk,
  • dastard,
  • mouse,
  • wimp,
  • baby,
  • recreant,
  • chicken.
  •sissy (noun)
  • crybaby,
  • pushover,
  • cuckold,
  • cream puff,
  • daisy,
  • Daisies,
  • cuckolds.
  •weakling (noun)
  • dotard,
  • misfit,
  • dotards.
  •wimp (noun)
  • loser,
  • featherweight,
  • featherweights,
  • Puppies,
  • puppy,
  • schlemiel.

• Other synonyms:

  •Portuguese man-of-war
  • Portuguese Man of War.
  •
  • cuttlefish,
  • porpoise,
  • sea lion,
  • weakling,
  • sea anemone,
  • conger eel,
  • humpback whale,
  • dolphin,
  • plankton,
  • walrus,
  • squid,
  • sperm whale,
  • octopus,
  • starfish,
  • seahorse.
  •
  • polyp,
  • turtle,
  • whale.
  •
  • sponge.
  •
  • seal.

Paraphrases for Jellyfish:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    medusa.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    medusa.

Antonyms for Jellyfish:

• adj.

  • apprehensive
    certain, happy, cool, laid-back, unafraid, unquestionable, sure, composed, undoubting, easy-going, at ease, unworried, collected, definite, confident, quiet, Unfearful, calm, unsuspicious, clear.
  • frightened
    bold, comforted, courageous, brave.

• n.

  • coward
    hero, aggressor.
  • weakling
    strongman.
  • Other antonyms:
    mensch, stalwart.

Jellyfish Sentence Examples:

• We cannot but sympathize with Sidney Lanier's complaint against " your cold jellyfish poets that wrinkle themselves about a pebble of a theme and let us see it through their substance, as if that were a great feat."

• Kate Bindane had a romantic heart under her uncompromising exterior; and her cold - blooded husband, to whom she was obviously devoted, must have played the lover about as ardently as a jellyfish.

Holonyms for Jellyfish:

• n.

  • animal
    coelenterata, cnidaria, physalia, Phylum Coelenterata, Genus Physalia, Phylum Cnidaria.

Hypernym for Jellyfish:

• n.

  • animal
    Chrysaora Quinquecirrha, aegina.

Hyponym for Jellyfish:

• n.

  • animal
    cnidarian, coelenterate, siphonophore.