What is another word for prostitute?
635 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pɹˈɒstɪtjˌuːt], [ pɹˈɒstɪtjˌuːt], [ p_ɹ_ˈɒ_s_t_ɪ_t_j_ˌuː_t]
The word "prostitute" is often considered derogatory and offensive, which is why it's essential to have various synonyms to avoid hurting anyone's feelings. Some alternative terms for prostitute include sex worker, call girl, escort, courtesan, streetwalker, harlot, and hooker. Each of these phrases holds a slightly different connotation and may have varying degrees of formality or crudeness. It's crucial to use appropriate language when referring to sex workers to avoid perpetuating harmful stereotypes and stigmas. Regardless of the word chosen, it's important to treat sex workers with respect and dignity, as they provide a valuable service and have the same rights as any other individual.
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Similar words for prostitute:
- bawd (noun)
- call girl (noun)
- cocotte (noun)
- cyprian (noun)
- fancy woman (noun)
- floozy (noun)
- lady of pleasure (noun)
- mistress (noun)
- prostitute (noun)
- wench (noun)
- abuse (verb)
- desecrate (verb)
- ill-treat (verb)
- ill-use (verb)
- mishandle (verb)
- mishandle/mismanage (verb)
- misuse (verb)
- pervert (verb)
- profane (verb)
- social (verb)
Synonyms for Prostitute:
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n.
• bawd- bawd .
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v.
• abuse- mis employ ,
- mis employed ,
- mis employing ,
- mis employs ,
- mis-employ ,
- mis-employed ,
- mis-employing ,
- mis-employs ,
- misemployed ,
- misemploying ,
- misemploys ,
- over burden ,
- over burdened ,
- over burdening ,
- over burdens ,
- over tax ,
- over taxed ,
- over taxes ,
- over taxing ,
- over work ,
- over worked ,
- over working ,
- over works ,
- over-burdened ,
- over-burdening ,
- over-burdens ,
- over-tax ,
- over-taxed ,
- over-taxes ,
- over-taxing ,
- over-work ,
- over-worked ,
- over-working ,
- over-works .
- be foul ,
- be fouled ,
- be fouling ,
- be fouls ,
- be-foul ,
- be-fouled ,
- be-fouling ,
- be-fouls ,
- commits sacrilege ,
- committed sacrilege ,
- committing sacrilege ,
- de file ,
- de filed ,
- de files ,
- de filing ,
- de predate ,
- de predated ,
- de predates ,
- de predating ,
- de solate ,
- de solated ,
- de solates ,
- de solating ,
- de spoil ,
- de spoiled ,
- de spoiling ,
- de spoils ,
- de-file ,
- de-filed ,
- de-files ,
- de-filing ,
- de-predate ,
- de-predated ,
- de-predates ,
- de-predating ,
- de-solate ,
- de-solated ,
- de-solates ,
- de-solating ,
- de-spoil ,
- de-spoiled ,
- de-spoiling ,
- de-spoils ,
- dis honor ,
- dis honored ,
- dis honoring ,
- dis honors ,
- dis-honor ,
- dis-honored ,
- dis-honoring ,
- dis-honors ,
- made lose face ,
- makes lose face ,
- making lose face .
- mis handle ,
- mis manager ,
- mis managers ,
- mis-handle ,
- mis-manager ,
- mis-managers ,
- mismanagered ,
- mismanagering .
- are incompetent ,
- are inefficient ,
- art incompetent ,
- art inefficient ,
- being incompetent ,
- being inefficient ,
- flubbing ,
- goofed up ,
- goofing up ,
- goofs up ,
- is incompetent ,
- is inefficient ,
- made a hash of ,
- made a mess of ,
- made hash of ,
- made mess of ,
- make mess of ,
- makes a hash of ,
- makes a mess of ,
- makes hash of ,
- makes mess of ,
- making a hash of ,
- making a mess of ,
- making hash of ,
- making mess of ,
- maladministered ,
- maladministering ,
- maladministers ,
- mis applied ,
- mis applies ,
- mis apply ,
- mis applying ,
- mis conduct ,
- mis conducted ,
- mis conducting ,
- mis conducts ,
- mis direct ,
- mis directed ,
- mis directing ,
- mis directs ,
- mis govern ,
- mis governed ,
- mis governing ,
- mis governs ,
- mis handled ,
- mis handles ,
- mis handling ,
- mis manage ,
- mis managed ,
- mis manages ,
- mis managing ,
- mis treat ,
- mis treated ,
- mis treating ,
- mis treats ,
- mis-applied ,
- mis-applies ,
- mis-apply ,
- mis-applying ,
- mis-conduct ,
- mis-conducted ,
- mis-conducting ,
- mis-conducts ,
- mis-direct ,
- mis-directed ,
- mis-directing ,
- mis-directs ,
- mis-govern ,
- mis-governed ,
- mis-governing ,
- mis-governs ,
- mis-handled ,
- mis-handles ,
- mis-handling ,
- mis-manage ,
- mis-managed ,
- mis-manages ,
- mis-managing ,
- mis-treat ,
- mis-treated ,
- mis-treating ,
- mis-treats ,
- misgoverns ,
- over look ,
- over looked ,
- over looks ,
- over-look ,
- over-looking ,
- over-looks ,
- puts foot in ,
- putting foot in ,
- shoot foot ,
- shoot in foot ,
- shoot oneself foot ,
- shooting foot ,
- shooting in foot ,
- shooting oneself foot ,
- shooting oneself in foot ,
- shoots foot ,
- shoots in foot ,
- shoots oneself foot ,
- shoots oneself in foot ,
- shot foot ,
- shot in foot ,
- shot oneself foot ,
- shot oneself in foot ,
- was incompetent ,
- was inefficient ,
- wast incompetent ,
- wast inefficient ,
- were incompetent ,
- were inefficient ,
- wert incompetent ,
- wert inefficient .
- handled roughly ,
- handles roughly ,
- handling roughly ,
- mis used ,
- mis using ,
- mis-used ,
- mis-using ,
- out raged ,
- out rages ,
- out-rage ,
- out-raged ,
- out-rages ,
- out-raging .
- co loring ,
- co-loring ,
- de base ,
- de based ,
- de basing ,
- de moralize ,
- de moralized ,
- de moralizes ,
- de moralizing ,
- de-base ,
- de-based ,
- de-basing ,
- de-moralize ,
- de-moralized ,
- de-moralizes ,
- de-moralizing ,
- dis tort ,
- dis torts ,
- dis-tort ,
- dis-torts ,
- doctored up ,
- doctoring up ,
- doctors up ,
- mis construe ,
- mis construed ,
- mis construes ,
- mis construing ,
- mis interpreted ,
- mis interpreting ,
- mis interprets ,
- mis represent ,
- mis represented ,
- mis representing ,
- mis represents ,
- mis state ,
- mis stated ,
- mis states ,
- mis-construe ,
- mis-construed ,
- mis-construes ,
- mis-construing ,
- mis-interpreted ,
- mis-interprets ,
- mis-represent ,
- mis-represented ,
- mis-representing ,
- mis-represents ,
- mis-state ,
- mis-stated ,
- mis-states ,
- mis-stating ,
- phonied up ,
- phonies up ,
- phonying up .
- am evil ,
- are evil ,
- being evil ,
- commits sin ,
- committed sin ,
- committing sin ,
- didst wrong ,
- doest wrong ,
- doeth wrong ,
- dost wrong ,
- doth wrong ,
- is evil ,
- mudslinged ,
- mudslings ,
- pro fane ,
- pro fanes ,
- pro-fane ,
- pro-fanes ,
- puts double whammy on ,
- putting double whammy on ,
- re vile ,
- re-vile ,
- talked dirty ,
- talking dirty ,
- talks dirty ,
- was evil ,
- wast evil ,
- were evil ,
- wert evil .
Other synonyms:
- madam .
Other relevant words:
- Illtreat ,
- Misapplied ,
- Misemploy ,
- Misgoverned ,
- Tarred ,
- Tarring ,
- Tars ,
- Trashed ,
- Viced ,
- Vicing ,
- abuse ,
- be evil ,
- be incompetent ,
- be inefficient ,
- commit sacrilege ,
- commit sin ,
- desecrate ,
- did wrong ,
- do wrong ,
- does wrong ,
- doing wrong ,
- exhaust ,
- flubbed ,
- goof up ,
- ill-treat ,
- ill-use ,
- illuse ,
- make a hash of ,
- make a mess of ,
- make hash of ,
- make lose face ,
- maladminister ,
- misconducted ,
- misconducting ,
- misdirect ,
- misdirected ,
- misdirecting ,
- misdirects ,
- misgovern ,
- misgoverning ,
- misuse ,
- mudsling ,
- muff ,
- over-burden ,
- over-wrought ,
- overburdened ,
- overtax ,
- overtaxed ,
- overtaxes ,
- overtaxing ,
- pervert ,
- profane ,
- put double whammy on ,
- put foot in ,
- ravaged ,
- shoot oneself in foot ,
- spoil ,
- spoilt ,
- talk dirty ,
- tar ,
- voodooed ,
- voodooing ,
- waste .
- Advoutress ,
- Catamite ,
- Chippy ,
- Cotquean ,
- Demirep ,
- Grisette ,
- Hetaera ,
- Hetaira ,
- Hooker ,
- Hustling ,
- Languishing ,
- Lorette ,
- Mopsy ,
- N ,
- Paphian ,
- Prostituted ,
- Quean ,
- Trull ,
- Whorish ,
- abase ,
- adulterate ,
- adulteress ,
- aggrieve ,
- alloy ,
- appall ,
- bad ,
- baggage ,
- bastardize ,
- bat ,
- befoul ,
- betrayer ,
- bimbo ,
- bitch ,
- boy toy ,
- brass ,
- brutal ,
- brutalise ,
- brutalize ,
- call-girl ,
- camp-follower ,
- canker ,
- cat ,
- cheapen ,
- cheater ,
- chippie ,
- coarsen ,
- commit adultery ,
- common ,
- confound ,
- confusion ,
- contaminate ,
- contrary ,
- convert ,
- corrupt ,
- courtezan ,
- cruel ,
- cruiser ,
- customary ,
- dame ,
- debase ,
- debauch ,
- decayed ,
- deceiver ,
- defalcate ,
- defile ,
- deflower ,
- degenerate ,
- degrade ,
- demean ,
- demimonde ,
- demoralise ,
- demoralize ,
- denature ,
- deprave ,
- depraved ,
- depress ,
- despoil ,
- devalue ,
- discourage ,
- disobedient ,
- dispirit ,
- distort ,
- divert ,
- doxy ,
- drab ,
- dreary ,
- embezzle ,
- evil ,
- fallen ,
- fallen woman ,
- floozie ,
- floozy ,
- flowered ,
- fornicatress ,
- foul ,
- fractious ,
- general ,
- gigolo ,
- hackney ,
- harm ,
- harridan ,
- headstrong ,
- hothouse ,
- hussy ,
- hustler ,
- immoral ,
- inamorata ,
- inconspicuous ,
- infect ,
- injure ,
- intrigue ,
- jade ,
- jezebel ,
- kept woman ,
- lady of easy virtue ,
- lessen ,
- loose woman ,
- lower ,
- malevolent ,
- malicious ,
- malign ,
- meretricious ,
- meretrix ,
- minx ,
- misapply ,
- misappropriate ,
- mismanage ,
- miss ,
- mistreat ,
- mistress ,
- mutton ,
- nightwalker ,
- obdurate ,
- obstinate ,
- occupant ,
- ordinary ,
- painted woman ,
- pander ,
- party girl ,
- pastry ,
- pave ,
- peculate ,
- perverse ,
- perverted ,
- pickup ,
- pie ,
- piece ,
- pilfer ,
- pimp ,
- plebeian ,
- poison ,
- pollute ,
- polluted ,
- poule ,
- pro ,
- procure ,
- procuress ,
- prostitution ,
- punk ,
- ravage ,
- ravish ,
- rent-boy ,
- reproach ,
- rig ,
- ruin ,
- sapphist ,
- scarlet ,
- scrofulous ,
- seduce ,
- seducer ,
- sell out ,
- skit ,
- slander ,
- slattern ,
- sloven ,
- slut ,
- stew ,
- streetwalker ,
- streetwalking ,
- strumpet ,
- subvert ,
- swallow ,
- taint ,
- tainted ,
- tomato ,
- toy boy ,
- tramp ,
- twist ,
- ulcerate ,
- unchaste ,
- unfortunate ,
- vamp ,
- venomous ,
- vicious ,
- victimize ,
- vile ,
- vilify ,
- violate ,
- vitiate ,
- voluptuary ,
- vulgarize ,
- wanton ,
- warp ,
- wasted ,
- wench ,
- wicked ,
- woman ,
- young woman .
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How to use "Prostitute" in context?
The prostitute is an individual who provides sexual services for monetary gain. Prostitution is not a victimless crime, as prostitutes often face violence and discrimination from both their clients and society at large. Despite this, many prostitutes find that the trade offers them opportunities for self-discovery and emancipation.
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
whore.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
prostitution, stripper, slut, Hooker.
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Noun, singular or mass
Hyponym for Prostitute:
v.
-
social
sell.
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social
Word of the Day
not paid for
- Synonyms:
- unpaid.
