553 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ skɹˈuːpə͡l], [ skɹˈuːpə‍l], [ s_k_ɹ_ˈuː_p_əl]

Similar words for scruple:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• compunction (noun)
• doubt (noun)
• grain (noun)
• hesitation (noun)
• indecisiveness (noun)
• minim (noun)
• minimum (noun)
• misgiving (noun)
• mistrust (noun)
• objection (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• particle (noun)
• penitence (noun)
• qualm (noun)
• regret (noun)
• reservation (noun)
• scruple (noun)
• solicitude (noun)
• uncertainty (noun)
• uneasiness (noun)
• demur (verb)
• doubt (verb)
• falter (verb)
• hesitate (verb)
• misdoubt (verb)
• mistrust (verb)
• other relevant words (verb)
• scruple (verb)
• shrink (verb)
• other synonyms
• disagree
• doubt
• hesitate
• mistrust
• other relevant words

Homophones for scruple

Holonyms for scruple

Hyponyms for scruple

Meronyms for scruple

Synonyms for Scruple:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • feeling.

• n.

  •
  • ethics,
  • etiquette,
  • code,
  • Standards,
  • rule,
  • the proprieties,
  • law,
  • conscience,
  • convention,
  • morals.
  •
  • certain,
  • compunction.
  •
  • dab,
  • trifle,
  • big,
  • drop,
  • bit,
  • dash,
  • spot.
  • compunction (noun)
  • study at qualm.
  • doubt (noun)
  • agnosticism,
  • fear,
  • diffidence,
  • dubiousness,
  • faithlessness,
  • problem,
  • suspense,
  • disbelief,
  • disquiet,
  • incredulity,
  • distrust,
  • apprehension,
  • incertitude,
  • dilemma,
  • demurral,
  • waverings,
  • quandary,
  • confusion,
  • lack of confidence,
  • skepticism,
  • suspicion,
  • indecision,
  • rejection,
  • dubiety,
  • ambiguity,
  • vacillation,
  • misgiving,
  • wavering,
  • mistrust,
  • discredit.
  • grain (noun)
  • spark,
  • cereal,
  • trace,
  • scintilla,
  • atom,
  • pellet,
  • kernel,
  • morsel.
  • hesitation (noun)
  • indisposition,
  • oscillation,
  • dawdling,
  • Averseness,
  • unwillingness,
  • Delaying,
  • stammering,
  • equivocation,
  • fluctuation,
  • stuttering.
  • indecisiveness (noun)
  • in decisivenesses,
  • in-decisivenesses,
  • in-decisiveness,
  • in decisiveness.
  • minim (noun)
  • shavings.
  • minimum (noun)
  • depth,
  • hair,
  • bottom,
  • narrowest,
  • margin,
  • lowest,
  • smallest,
  • pittance,
  • slightest,
  • point,
  • gleam,
  • shadow.
  • misgiving (noun)
  • fore-boding,
  • pre monition,
  • un belief,
  • pre-monition,
  • pre sage,
  • pre-notion,
  • un eases,
  • un-ease,
  • pre-sages,
  • pre-sage,
  • pre sentiments,
  • un-belief,
  • pre monitions,
  • un ease,
  • apprehensivenesses,
  • fore boding,
  • pre-sentiment,
  • pre-sentiments,
  • mis giving,
  • un-beliefs,
  • pre sages,
  • pre notion,
  • pre notions,
  • pre-notions,
  • prenotions,
  • un beliefs,
  • un-eases,
  • fore bodings,
  • mis-giving.
  • mistrust (noun)
  • Dubiosity.
  • objection (noun)
  • re monstrance,
  • dis esteems,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • dis pleasures,
  • dis-approval,
  • dis-esteem,
  • counterarguments,
  • counter arguments,
  • counter argument,
  • dis contents,
  • dis approbations,
  • dis-inclination,
  • dis approval,
  • dis-approbations,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • re-monstrances,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • re-monstrance,
  • dis approvals,
  • dis approbation,
  • dis-esteems,
  • demurrings,
  • re monstrances,
  • dis inclination,
  • counter-arguments,
  • dis-inclinations,
  • dis-pleasure,
  • shrinkings,
  • dis-approvals,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • dis esteem,
  • dis inclinations,
  • dis-approbation,
  • dis content,
  • dis pleasure,
  • dis satisfactions,
  • dis-content,
  • dis-contents.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • least,
  • leasts,
  • Prenotion,
  • uneasiness,
  • to-and-fro,
  • dyspathy,
  • timidness,
  • minimum,
  • uncertainty,
  • counter-argument,
  • niggle,
  • hemming and hawing,
  • particle,
  • stumblings,
  • stumbling,
  • Ort,
  • in security,
  • counterargument,
  • irresolution,
  • objection,
  • hesitation,
  • apprehensiveness,
  • procrastination,
  • indecisiveness,
  • protestation,
  • minim,
  • grist,
  • Corns,
  • mote,
  • Remonstration,
  • modicum,
  • procrastinations,
  • queasiness,
  • doubt,
  • corn,
  • granule,
  • qualm,
  • mite,
  • tittle,
  • penitence,
  • fumbling,
  • insecurity,
  • regret,
  • fumblings,
  • grain,
  • irresoluteness,
  • nadir,
  • tentativeness,
  • grain of salt,
  • reservation,
  • solicitude,
  • granules.
  • particle (noun)
  • smithereens,
  • smithereen.
  • penitence (noun)
  • remorsefulness,
  • self-condemnation,
  • self-castigation,
  • Penitency,
  • ruefulness,
  • self-reproach,
  • self-flagellation,
  • self-punishment.
  • qualm (noun)
  • in securities,
  • in-security,
  • in-securities.
  • regret (noun)
  • self-accusation,
  • self-disgust,
  • regretfulness,
  • lamentation.
  • reservation (noun)
  • pro viso,
  • re striction,
  • pro-visions,
  • pro-visos,
  • re-strictions,
  • pro visos,
  • pro-viso,
  • re-striction,
  • pro visions,
  • re strictions,
  • pro-vision,
  • grain salt,
  • pro vision.
  • scruple (noun)
  • hesitancy,
  • faltering,
  • perplexity,
  • censor,
  • anxiety,
  • difficulty,
  • squeamishness,
  • reluctance,
  • superego,
  • Reluctancy,
  • reconsideration,
  • second thought,
  • caution,
  • twinge.
  • solicitude (noun)
  • considerateness,
  • tender loving care.
  • uncertainty (noun)
  • inconclusiveness,
  • unpredictabilities,
  • unpredictability,
  • Uncertainties,
  • Questionableness.
  • uneasiness (noun)
  • un easiness,
  • in-quietudes,
  • dyspathies,
  • un-rest,
  • in-stability,
  • in quietudes,
  • un-rests,
  • in-quietude,
  • in stabilities,
  • un-easiness,
  • un rest,
  • in-stabilities,
  • queasinesses,
  • in quietude,
  • in stability,
  • un easinesses,
  • un-easinesses.

• v.

  • demur (verb)
  • dispute,
  • combat,
  • balk,
  • protest,
  • deprecate,
  • strain,
  • refuse,
  • wait and see,
  • cavil,
  • object,
  • hem and haw,
  • complain,
  • disapprove,
  • resist,
  • challenge,
  • fight,
  • oppose.
  • doubt (verb)
  • query,
  • impugn,
  • surmise,
  • Skepticize,
  • be dubious,
  • Misdoubt,
  • give no credence,
  • insinuate,
  • imagine,
  • not buy,
  • call in question,
  • be in a quandary,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • suspect,
  • fluctuate,
  • take dim view of,
  • read differently,
  • be undetermined,
  • disbelieve,
  • harbor suspicion,
  • smell a rat,
  • be uncertain,
  • be curious,
  • wonder at,
  • be apprehensive of,
  • misgive,
  • be puzzled.
  • falter (verb)
  • halt,
  • stammer,
  • quaver,
  • shake,
  • break,
  • roll,
  • flounder,
  • topple,
  • fluff,
  • reel,
  • teeter,
  • stagger,
  • tremble,
  • rock,
  • totter.
  • hesitate (verb)
  • equivocate,
  • dally,
  • sit on fence,
  • pull back,
  • be irresolute,
  • swerve,
  • debate,
  • dither,
  • fumble,
  • hedge,
  • delay,
  • stop,
  • stutter,
  • ponder,
  • seesaw,
  • tergiversate,
  • shift,
  • weigh,
  • hold off,
  • hang back,
  • hover,
  • straddle,
  • oscillate,
  • linger,
  • think twice,
  • shy away,
  • alternate,
  • defer,
  • balance,
  • waffle,
  • hold back,
  • think about,
  • dillydally,
  • blow hot and cold.
  • misdoubt (verb)
  • had one's doubts,
  • mis-doubted,
  • has one doubts,
  • haddest one doubts,
  • mis doubting,
  • mis doubted,
  • hath one's doubts,
  • mis-doubt,
  • having one doubts,
  • has ones doubts,
  • hadst ones doubts,
  • mis doubt,
  • having ones doubts,
  • hast ones doubts,
  • had one doubts,
  • had ones doubts,
  • haddest one's doubts,
  • hast one doubts,
  • have one doubts,
  • has one's doubts,
  • hadst one doubts,
  • mis doubts,
  • have ones doubts,
  • haddest ones doubts,
  • mis-doubting,
  • mis-doubts,
  • hath ones doubts,
  • hadst one's doubts,
  • hast one's doubts,
  • having one's doubts,
  • hath one doubts.
  • mistrust (verb)
  • be waring,
  • be ware,
  • has doubts,
  • be wares,
  • haddest doubts,
  • be-ware,
  • having doubts,
  • being wary,
  • be-wares,
  • is wary,
  • hast doubts,
  • be wared,
  • be-wared,
  • mis trusted,
  • were wary,
  • be-waring,
  • was wary,
  • are wary,
  • art wary,
  • wert wary,
  • mis trusting,
  • mis-trusted,
  • mis-trusting,
  • hadst doubts,
  • hath doubts,
  • am wary,
  • wast wary,
  • had doubts.
  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • question,
  • activity,
  • pause,
  • fret,
  • wonder,
  • fuss.
  • scruple (verb)
  • stick,
  • stumble,
  • boggle,
  • be loath,
  • worry,
  • think twice about,
  • vacillate,
  • gag,
  • shy,
  • waver.
  • shrink (verb)
  • re treating,
  • re tired,
  • re treats,
  • re-ceding,
  • re-tiring,
  • re-ceded,
  • with draws,
  • re tires,
  • re tire,
  • re-tire,
  • re-treated,
  • with draw,
  • re-cedes,
  • re-cede,
  • re ceding,
  • with-drawn,
  • with-draw,
  • with drawn,
  • re cedes,
  • with drew,
  • with-drawing,
  • re-treat,
  • re-treats,
  • with-drew,
  • re-treating,
  • re tiring,
  • with drawing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • molecule,
  • whit,
  • iota,
  • shred,
  • jot,
  • ounce,
  • smidgen.
  •
  • scrap,
  • crumb,
  • fragment,
  • dot,
  • speck,
  • dram.
  • disagree
  • demur.
  • doubt
  • Feared,
  • shillyshally,
  • misgives,
  • Fearing,
  • smelling a rat,
  • have qualms,
  • Misgiven,
  • doubting,
  • Misgave.
  • hesitate
  • Hesitated,
  • thinking about,
  • dithering,
  • thinking twice,
  • be reluctant,
  • thinks about,
  • pulls back,
  • pulling back,
  • pulled back,
  • be unwilling,
  • thought about,
  • dithered.
  • mistrust
  • be wary,
  • suspicioned,
  • suspicioning,
  • have doubts.
  • Other relevant words:
  • shrinking,
  • lurch,
  • Whiffling,
  • trip up,
  • Paused,
  • remonstrate,
  • have one's doubts,
  • bobbles,
  • bobbling,
  • Whiffled,
  • stickle,
  • Stickled,
  • fluffed,
  • tripped up,
  • shies,
  • Teetering,
  • shrink,
  • bobble,
  • Slank,
  • dropping the ball,
  • dropped the ball,
  • taking exception,
  • stub toe,
  • be undecided,
  • slinks,
  • bobbled,
  • Shied,
  • scruples,
  • lurching,
  • Stammered,
  • Floundered,
  • speak haltingly,
  • pussyfoot,
  • drop the ball,
  • stickles,
  • wobble,
  • Flinched,
  • Shying,
  • Whiffle,
  • hesitate,
  • scruple,
  • take exception,
  • falter,
  • fluffing,
  • Stickling.

Homophones for Scruple:

• scrofula, sorb apple, survival, sorrowfully, scrub fowl, serval, scurvily, scrappily, scrabble, screwball, servilely, Scrapple, serve well, sugar apple, shrivel, sorrowful, sharply, soccer ball, scribble, scrabbly, surveil, servile, sourball, sugar bowl.

Holonyms for Scruple:

• n.

  • quantity
    drachm, dram, drachma.

Hyponym for Scruple:

• n.

  • cognition
    principle.
  • quantity
    apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight.

• v.

  • communication
    question, wonder.
  • emotion
    fret, niggle, fuss.
  • stative
    hesitate, pause.

Meronym for Scruple:

• n.

  • quantity
    grain.