What is another word for pirate?
1229 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pˈa͡ɪɹət], [ pˈaɪɹət], [ p_ˈaɪ_ɹ_ə_t]
The word "pirate" can be interchanged with several synonyms that have different connotations. For instance, "buccaneer" refers to a pirate who operated in the Caribbean, while a "privateer" was a pirate who was authorized by a government to attack enemy ships. A "corsair" was a pirate who operated in the Mediterranean, and a "raider" was a pirate who raided towns and villages along the coast. A "swashbuckler" is a flamboyant pirate who is known for daring feats of bravery and swordfighting. Lastly, a "freebooter" was a pirate who operated off the coast of Africa and was notorious for attacking slave ships.
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Similar words for pirate:
- spurious (adjective)
- counterfeit (adjective)
- pseudo (adjective)
- adventurer (noun)
- bandit (noun)
- brigand (noun)
- buccaneer (noun)
- duplicate (noun)
- hijack (noun)
- marauder (noun)
- pirate (noun)
- robber (noun)
- sailor (noun)
- seaman/woman (noun)
- thief (noun)
- vandal (noun)
- borrow (verb)
- copy (verb)
- duplicate (verb)
- forge (verb)
- infringe (verb)
- kidnap (verb)
- misrepresent (verb)
- misrepresent/misquote (verb)
- raid (verb)
- ravage (verb)
- reproduce (verb)
- shanghai (verb)
- simulate (verb)
- smuggle (verb)
- steal (verb)
- bootlegger
- borrow
- duplicate
- imitate
- kidnap
- misrepresent
- noun
- reproduce
- steal
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Pirate:
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adj.
• spurious- unauthentic ,
- ungenuine ,
- bummest ,
- dummier ,
- dummiest ,
- makebelieve ,
- more unauthentic ,
- more ungenuine ,
- most unauthentic ,
- most ungenuine ,
- un authentic ,
- un genuine ,
- un-authentic ,
- un-genuine ,
- un-real .
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n.
• adventurer- Heroes ,
- Mercenaries ,
- charlatan ,
- daredevil ,
- entrepreneur ,
- explorer ,
- fortune-hunter ,
- gambler ,
- globetrotter ,
- hero ,
- heroine ,
- madcap ,
- mercenary ,
- opportunist ,
- pioneer ,
- pirate ,
- romantic ,
- romantics ,
- speculator ,
- stunt person ,
- swashbuckler ,
- traveler ,
- venturer ,
- voyager ,
- voyagers ,
- wanderer .
- Ravager ,
- crook ,
- foragers ,
- gunperson ,
- highwayperson ,
- hijacker ,
- holdup person ,
- hooligan ,
- mobster ,
- outlaw ,
- pillagers ,
- racketeer ,
- ravagers .
- Co-ordinates ,
- Germinations ,
- Photostats ,
- REPRO ,
- STAT ,
- STATS ,
- analogue ,
- carbon ,
- carbon copy ,
- chip off old block ,
- chip off the old block ,
- clone ,
- co-ordinate ,
- companion ,
- coordinate ,
- correlate ,
- counterpart ,
- counterscript ,
- dead ringer ,
- double ,
- duplication ,
- duplications ,
- facsimile ,
- fellow ,
- germination ,
- knockoff ,
- likeness ,
- lookalike ,
- match ,
- mate ,
- obverse ,
- parallel ,
- photo copy ,
- photocopy ,
- photostat ,
- reciprocal ,
- reciprocals ,
- recurrence ,
- repetition ,
- replica ,
- replication ,
- ringer ,
- second ,
- similarity ,
- spitting image ,
- twin ,
- xerox .
- cardsharpers ,
- cattle thieves ,
- de spoiler ,
- de spoilers ,
- de-spoiler ,
- de-spoilers ,
- holdup artists ,
- sandbaggers ,
- second story operator ,
- second story operators ,
- second-story operators ,
- secondstory operator ,
- secondstory operators .
- Circumnavigator ,
- Hearties ,
- Marines ,
- Middies ,
- Swabber ,
- Tars ,
- Yachter ,
- able-bodied sailor ,
- bluejackets ,
- boater ,
- boaters ,
- circumnavigators ,
- deck hand ,
- diver ,
- lascar ,
- lascars ,
- middy ,
- old salt ,
- old salts ,
- sea person ,
- shellback ,
- shellbacks ,
- shipmates ,
- swabbie ,
- windjammers .
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v.
• borrow • copy- DO ,
- burlesque ,
- embody ,
- emulate ,
- epitomize ,
- follow ,
- follow suit ,
- illustrate ,
- incarnate ,
- knock off ,
- mimic ,
- mirror ,
- model ,
- parody ,
- personify ,
- prefigure ,
- repeat ,
- sham ,
- take off ,
- travesty ,
- typify .
- coin ,
- design ,
- fabricate ,
- falsify ,
- fashion ,
- feign ,
- frame ,
- invent ,
- make ,
- produce ,
- scratch ,
- transcribe .
- bodied snatch ,
- bodies snatch ,
- bodying snatch ,
- bundled off ,
- bundles off ,
- bundling off ,
- carries away ,
- carries off ,
- carrying away ,
- carrying off ,
- co axed ,
- co axing ,
- co-axed ,
- co-axing ,
- de coy ,
- de coyed ,
- de coying ,
- de coys ,
- de-coy ,
- de-coyed ,
- de-coying ,
- de-coys ,
- laid hands on ,
- laying hands on ,
- made off with ,
- made with ,
- make with ,
- makes off with ,
- makes with ,
- making with ,
- ran away with ,
- re move ,
- re moved ,
- re moving ,
- re-move ,
- re-moves ,
- re-moving ,
- running away with ,
- runs away with ,
- skyjacks ,
- spirited away ,
- spiriting away ,
- spirits away .
- blew smoke ,
- blowing smoke ,
- blows smoke ,
- cheesing ,
- mis color ,
- mis coloring ,
- mis reported ,
- mis represent ,
- mis-reports ,
- mis-represent ,
- over drawn .
- Overdrew ,
- be lied ,
- be lying ,
- be-lied ,
- be-lying ,
- co loring ,
- co-loring ,
- dis guise ,
- dis guised ,
- dis guises ,
- dis guising ,
- dis tort ,
- dis torts ,
- dis-guise ,
- dis-guised ,
- dis-guises ,
- dis-guising ,
- dis-tort ,
- dis-torts ,
- gave snow job ,
- gives snow job ,
- mis colored ,
- mis colors ,
- mis interpreted ,
- mis interpreting ,
- mis interprets ,
- mis quoted ,
- mis quotes ,
- mis quoting ,
- mis report ,
- mis reporting ,
- mis reports ,
- mis represented ,
- mis representing ,
- mis represents ,
- mis stated ,
- mis states ,
- mis-color ,
- mis-colored ,
- mis-coloring ,
- mis-colors ,
- mis-interpreted ,
- mis-interprets ,
- mis-quote ,
- mis-quoted ,
- mis-quotes ,
- mis-quoting ,
- mis-reported ,
- mis-reporting ,
- mis-represented ,
- mis-representing ,
- mis-represents ,
- mis-state ,
- mis-stated ,
- mis-states ,
- mis-stating ,
- miscolored ,
- miscolors ,
- misreports ,
- over draw ,
- over drawing ,
- over draws ,
- over drew ,
- over state ,
- over states ,
- over stating ,
- over-draw ,
- over-drawing ,
- over-drawn ,
- over-draws ,
- over-drew ,
- over-stated ,
- over-stating ,
- overdraws ,
- pro moting ,
- pro-mote ,
- pro-motes ,
- pro-moting ,
- spreading it on ,
- spreading on ,
- spreads it on ,
- spreads on ,
- takes out context ,
- takes out of context ,
- taking out context ,
- taking out of context ,
- threw a curve ,
- threw curve ,
- throw curve ,
- throwing a curve ,
- throwing curve ,
- throws a curve ,
- throws curve ,
- took out context ,
- took out of context .
- de spoil ,
- de spoiled ,
- de spoiling ,
- de spoils ,
- de-spoil ,
- de-spoiled ,
- de-spoiling ,
- de-spoils ,
- descended on ,
- descending on ,
- descends on ,
- fall up on ,
- falling up on ,
- falling upon ,
- falls up on ,
- falls upon ,
- fell up on ,
- fired on ,
- fires on ,
- firing on ,
- in road ,
- in roads ,
- in-road ,
- in-roads ,
- knocking over ,
- knocks over ,
- leaned against ,
- leaned on ,
- leaning against ,
- leans against ,
- leans on ,
- leant against ,
- leant on ,
- marched on ,
- marches on ,
- marching on ,
- over running ,
- over runs ,
- tipping over ,
- tips over .
- de solate ,
- de solated ,
- de solates ,
- de solating ,
- de-solate ,
- de-solated ,
- de-solates ,
- de-solating ,
- dis mantle ,
- dis mantled ,
- dis mantles ,
- dis mantling ,
- dis organize ,
- dis organized ,
- dis organizes ,
- dis organizing ,
- dis-mantle ,
- dis-mantled ,
- dis-mantles ,
- dis-mantling ,
- dis-organize ,
- dis-organized ,
- dis-organizes ,
- dis-organizing ,
- ex terminate ,
- ex terminated ,
- ex terminates ,
- ex terminating ,
- ex-terminate ,
- ex-terminated ,
- ex-terminates ,
- ex-terminating ,
- leave ruins ,
- leaved in ruins ,
- leaved ruins ,
- leaves in ruins ,
- leaves ruins ,
- leaving in ruins ,
- leaving ruins ,
- left in ruins ,
- left ruins ,
- over throw ,
- over throwing ,
- over thrown ,
- over throws ,
- over whelm ,
- over whelmed ,
- over whelming ,
- over whelms ,
- over-throw ,
- over-throwing ,
- over-thrown ,
- over-throws ,
- over-whelm ,
- over-whelmed ,
- over-whelming ,
- over-whelms ,
- sweeping away ,
- sweeps away .
- Re-present ,
- carboned ,
- carboning ,
- mimeoed ,
- mimeographing ,
- photo copied ,
- photo graphed ,
- photo graphing ,
- photo-graphed ,
- photo-graphing ,
- re awaken ,
- re awakened ,
- re awakening ,
- re awakens ,
- re counted ,
- re counting ,
- re counts ,
- re create ,
- re doing ,
- re enact ,
- re enacted ,
- re enacting ,
- re enacts ,
- re live ,
- re lived ,
- re lives ,
- re living ,
- re plicate ,
- re present ,
- re presented ,
- re presenting ,
- re presents ,
- re print ,
- re printed ,
- re printing ,
- re prints ,
- re produce ,
- re produced ,
- re produces ,
- re producing ,
- re stamp ,
- re stamped ,
- re stamping ,
- re stamps ,
- re-awaken ,
- re-awakened ,
- re-awakening ,
- re-awakens ,
- re-counted ,
- re-counting ,
- re-counts ,
- re-enacted ,
- re-enacting ,
- re-live ,
- re-lived ,
- re-lives ,
- re-living ,
- re-makes ,
- re-presented ,
- re-presenting ,
- re-presents ,
- re-print ,
- re-printed ,
- re-printing ,
- re-prints ,
- re-produce ,
- re-produced ,
- re-produces ,
- re-producing ,
- re-stamp ,
- re-stamped ,
- re-stamping ,
- re-stamps ,
- reenacts ,
- restamped ,
- restamping ,
- restamps ,
- stereo typed ,
- stereo typing ,
- stereo-typing .
Other synonyms:
- Bushranger ,
- adventurer ,
- body snatcher ,
- corsair ,
- cribber ,
- rustler ,
- sailor ,
- souvenir hunter ,
- vandal .
- crib .
Other relevant words:
- Breaching ,
- Burlesqued ,
- Burlesquing ,
- Coins ,
- Copped ,
- Creamed ,
- Creaming ,
- Cribbed ,
- Cribbing ,
- Emulated ,
- Incarnated ,
- Incarnating ,
- Infracted ,
- Infracting ,
- Inroaded ,
- Inroading ,
- Mirroring ,
- Miscolor ,
- Misreport ,
- Mocked ,
- Moonshining ,
- Overdrawing ,
- Overdrawn ,
- Preyed ,
- Preying ,
- Sallied ,
- Sallying ,
- Snowed ,
- Snowing ,
- TIDES ,
- Torpedoes ,
- Transgressed ,
- Trashed ,
- Typified ,
- act like ,
- anchor ,
- armada ,
- arms ,
- asea ,
- ashore ,
- assault ,
- attack ,
- aye-aye ,
- bandanna ,
- bandolier ,
- barbaric ,
- barrel ,
- battle ,
- beach ,
- blockaded ,
- blockading ,
- boatswain ,
- bootlegged ,
- bootlegging ,
- bootlegs ,
- borrow ,
- brawl ,
- breached ,
- brutal ,
- cannon ,
- captain ,
- capture ,
- cargo ,
- cave ,
- chest ,
- coast ,
- coastline ,
- compass ,
- conquest ,
- contraband ,
- copping ,
- corpse ,
- cover up ,
- covered up ,
- covering up ,
- covers up ,
- crew ,
- criminal ,
- cutlass ,
- cutthroat ,
- dagger ,
- danger ,
- daring ,
- dead man ,
- dead reckoning ,
- deck ,
- descend on ,
- desert island ,
- dishonest ,
- do a take-off ,
- do like ,
- doubloon ,
- earring ,
- echoes ,
- embodies ,
- escape ,
- evil ,
- eye patch ,
- fall upon ,
- fell upon ,
- fight ,
- fire on ,
- flag ,
- fleet ,
- flotsam and jetsam ,
- follow example ,
- foraging ,
- forayed ,
- foraying ,
- forge ,
- galleon ,
- gangplank ,
- gear ,
- gibbet ,
- give snow job ,
- gloss over ,
- glossed over ,
- go like ,
- gold ,
- gun ,
- gunner ,
- gunpowder ,
- haul ,
- heist ,
- held for ransom ,
- high seas ,
- hold for ransom ,
- hook ,
- hull ,
- hurricane ,
- incarnates ,
- infract ,
- infringe ,
- island ,
- jetsam ,
- jewels ,
- keel ,
- kidnap ,
- knife ,
- knock over ,
- knocked over ,
- laid waste ,
- landlubber ,
- lay waste ,
- laying waste ,
- lays waste ,
- lean against ,
- lean on ,
- leaning on ,
- leave in ruins ,
- lucre ,
- make like ,
- malaria ,
- map ,
- march on ,
- mast ,
- mayhem ,
- mis-report ,
- miscoloring ,
- misreported ,
- misreporting ,
- misrepresent ,
- modelling ,
- mutiny ,
- obtrude ,
- outcasts ,
- over-run ,
- over-runs ,
- overdraw ,
- parrot ,
- pegleg ,
- phonies ,
- phony up ,
- pillage ,
- pistol ,
- plagiarize ,
- plank ,
- play a role ,
- play role ,
- playact ,
- plunder ,
- privateer ,
- prowl ,
- put on act ,
- quest ,
- raid ,
- ransack ,
- ravage ,
- ravaged ,
- reproduce ,
- revenge ,
- revolt ,
- riches ,
- rigging ,
- roam ,
- rob ,
- rope ,
- rudder ,
- ruffian ,
- rum ,
- run contraband ,
- run rum ,
- sabotage ,
- sail ,
- sally forth ,
- scalawag ,
- scar ,
- scurvy ,
- seas ,
- sextant ,
- shelled ,
- shelling ,
- shipmate ,
- shore ,
- silver ,
- simulate ,
- simulated ,
- smuggle ,
- snake in ,
- spoils ,
- spread it on ,
- spread on ,
- strafe ,
- strafed ,
- strafes ,
- strafing ,
- sweep away ,
- swept away ,
- take leaf out of book ,
- take out of context ,
- thievery ,
- thug ,
- tip over ,
- tipped over ,
- took off ,
- torpedo ,
- torpedoed ,
- torpedoing ,
- torture ,
- treachery ,
- treasure ,
- trump up ,
- vessel ,
- villain ,
- weapons ,
- yellow fever .
- Manifolded ,
- Manifolding ,
- did again ,
- dittoed ,
- do a takeoff ,
- do again ,
- doing again ,
- dualize ,
- make replica ,
- make twofold ,
- manifolds ,
- mimeo ,
- photostatted ,
- photostatting ,
- reduplicate ,
- reduplicated ,
- reduplicates ,
- reduplicating ,
- remake ,
- remakes ,
- take as ,
- take off as .
- copy .
- body snatch ,
- bundle off ,
- carried away ,
- carried off ,
- carry away ,
- carry off ,
- lay hands on ,
- lays hands on ,
- make off with ,
- making off with ,
- run away with ,
- shanghai ,
- skyjack ,
- skyjacked ,
- skyjacking ,
- spirit away ,
- waylay .
- Assassin ,
- CHOR ,
- CONMAN ,
- Depredator ,
- Forager ,
- Infringer ,
- Jacky ,
- Kidnaper ,
- Mosstrooper ,
- Picaroon ,
- Pickeer ,
- Pickeerer ,
- Piqueerer ,
- Plagiary ,
- Purloiner ,
- Rapparee ,
- Shipman ,
- Spoliate ,
- Water thief ,
- abduct ,
- abductor ,
- abet ,
- able seaman ,
- able-bodied seaman ,
- accessory ,
- adopt ,
- air pirate ,
- airplane hijacker ,
- ape ,
- apocryphal ,
- appropriate ,
- arrogate ,
- arsonist ,
- artificial ,
- assume ,
- badger ,
- bail up ,
- bandit ,
- bluejacket ,
- bogus ,
- boost ,
- bootleg ,
- bootlegger ,
- break ,
- brigand ,
- buccaneer ,
- bunco ,
- bunko ,
- case ,
- cattle thief ,
- clandestine ,
- commandeer ,
- commission ,
- commit ,
- confiscate ,
- contrabandist ,
- contradict ,
- contravene ,
- convey ,
- copycat ,
- copyist ,
- counterfeit ,
- cracksman ,
- cuckoo ,
- dacoit ,
- deceitful ,
- deceptive ,
- derive from ,
- desperado ,
- despoil ,
- despoiler ,
- disobey ,
- do violence to ,
- duplicate ,
- echo ,
- encroach ,
- entrench ,
- expropriate ,
- extract ,
- fake ,
- falcon ,
- false ,
- feigned ,
- fence ,
- fictitious ,
- filibuster ,
- fisherman ,
- footpad ,
- forage ,
- fraudulent ,
- freebooter ,
- fugitive ,
- gangster ,
- gilded ,
- give ,
- gunman ,
- gunsel ,
- gut ,
- harpy ,
- hatchet man ,
- hawk ,
- hearty ,
- help ,
- highjack ,
- hit man ,
- hold up ,
- holdup man ,
- illegal ,
- illegitimate ,
- illicit ,
- imitate ,
- imitative ,
- imitator ,
- impinge ,
- improper ,
- inauthentic ,
- intrude ,
- invade ,
- jack ,
- jack-tar ,
- jackleg ,
- killer ,
- liberate ,
- limey ,
- literary pirate ,
- lobsterman ,
- looter ,
- make use of ,
- maraud ,
- marauder ,
- mariner ,
- maritime piracy ,
- matelot ,
- mime ,
- misappropriate ,
- misbegotten ,
- mock ,
- mocking bird ,
- monkey ,
- murderer ,
- navigator ,
- negate ,
- neptune ,
- nick ,
- peculate ,
- phony ,
- pick one's brains ,
- pilferer ,
- pillager ,
- pinch ,
- piracy ,
- pirate ship ,
- plagiarise ,
- plagiarised ,
- plagiariser ,
- plagiarist ,
- plagiaristic ,
- plagiarizer ,
- plunderer ,
- preempt ,
- prey on ,
- prey upon ,
- pseudo ,
- purloin ,
- raider ,
- ranger ,
- remove ,
- renegade ,
- rifle ,
- rip off ,
- rip-off artist ,
- road agent ,
- rover ,
- run ,
- sack ,
- salt ,
- sandbagger ,
- sea ,
- sea dog ,
- sea king ,
- sea rover ,
- sea wolf ,
- seafarer ,
- seaman ,
- second-story man ,
- seize ,
- shady ,
- shark ,
- shoplifter ,
- skin ,
- skyjacker ,
- sneak thief ,
- snitch ,
- specious ,
- spieler ,
- spoil ,
- spoiler ,
- spurious ,
- stick up ,
- stick-up man ,
- strip ,
- suppositious ,
- supposititious ,
- sweep ,
- take ,
- take on ,
- take over ,
- tar ,
- trample under foot ,
- transgress ,
- unauthorized ,
- unconstitutional ,
- unlawful ,
- usurp ,
- viking ,
- violate ,
- walk away with ,
- walk off ,
- water dog ,
- water rat ,
- whaler ,
- windjammer ,
- words ,
- wrecker ,
- wrong ,
- wrongful .
- Replicated ,
- mimeograph ,
- mimeographed ,
- mimeographs ,
- re-enact ,
- re-enacts ,
- reenact ,
- reenacted ,
- reenacting ,
- relive ,
- relived ,
- relives ,
- reliving ,
- reprint ,
- reprinted ,
- reprinting ,
- reprints ,
- restamp .
- embezzle ,
- heisted ,
- heisting ,
- housebreak ,
- housebreaking ,
- housebreaks ,
- housebroke ,
- housebroken ,
- lift ,
- ran off with ,
- ran with ,
- run off with ,
- run with ,
- steal ,
- sticking up ,
- sticks up ,
- stuck up ,
- take possession of ,
- walk off with ,
- walk with ,
- walked off with .
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How to use "Pirate" in context?
When people think of pirates, they think of ships full of brigands, pirates who will rob anyone they come across. This is not always the case, however. Pirates can be kind and gentle people, who simply want to take what is theirs by any means necessary. There are different types of pirates, but all share a common goal: to be their own boss. Pirate life isn't always easy, but for those who are brave enough to attempt it, it can be rewarding. Given the right environment, pirates can make a good living.
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
Pirating.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Adjective
illegal.
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Proper noun, singular
brethren.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
anti-piracy.
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Adjective
Hyponym for Pirate:
Word of the Day
not paid for
- Synonyms:
- unpaid.
