Definition for Whist:

• Card game of mingled skill& chance for four or exceptionally three or two persons( long, short, w., with ten, five, points to game; DUMMY, double DUMMY, BRIDGE, w.; RUBBER of w.; w. drive, PROGRESSIVE w. party.

Synonyms for Whist:

• adj.

  •quiet (adjective)
  • not saying boo,
  • hushed,
  • soft,
  • quiescent,
  • Quieter,
  • Stilled,
  • speechless,
  • noiseless,
  • silent,
  • inaudible,
  • taciturn,
  • unuttered,
  • Quieted,
  • buttoned up,
  • reticent,
  • unspeaking,
  • low-pitched,
  • soundless,
  • reserved,
  • close,
  • peaceful,
  • low,
  • muffled,
  • quietest,
  • mute,
  • hushful,
  • Inobtrusive,
  • could hear a pin drop,
  • secretive,
  • clammed up,
  • uncommunicative,
  • muted,
  • close-mouthed,
  • dumb,
  • unexpressed,
  • tight-lipped.
  •still (adjective)
  • placid,
  • fixed,
  • tranquil,
  • sealed,
  • smooth,
  • lifeless,
  • unruffled,
  • stable,
  • restful,
  • pacific,
  • untroubled,
  • static,
  • stagnant,
  • serene,
  • deathlike,
  • closed,
  • deathly,
  • stationary,
  • undisturbed,
  • inert,
  • halcyon,
  • stock-still.

• n.

  •
  • beggar-thy-neighbor,
  • pontoon.
  •game (noun)
  • gin,
  • canasta,
  • seven-up,
  • draw poker,
  • hopscotch,
  • marbles,
  • poker,
  • tiddlywinks,
  • checkers,
  • straight poker,
  • dominoes,
  • faro,
  • stud poker,
  • rum,
  • blind man's bluff,
  • chess,
  • billiards,
  • Chinese Checkers,
  • penny ante,
  • Skat,
  • baccarat,
  • old maid,
  • keno,
  • contract bridge,
  • horseshoes,
  • rummy,
  • shuffleboard,
  • pinochle,
  • cribbage,
  • gin rummy,
  • blackjack,
  • game,
  • parcheesi,
  • quoits,
  • mah-jongg,
  • bridge,
  • solitaire,
  • snooker,
  • euchre,
  • hearts,
  • backgammon,
  • draughts,
  • patience.
  •short whist (noun)
  • short whist.
  •whist (noun)
  • long whist.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • sound,
  • unstirring,
  • at rest,
  • quiet,
  • still,
  • stockstill,
  • deathly quiet,
  • deathly still.
  •n.
  • card game,
  • cards,
  • card games.

Antonyms for Whist:

• adj.

  • quiet
    complex, troubled, communicative, boisterous, loud, agitated, intricate, obtrusive, complicated, unreserved, noisy, clamorous.
  • still
    moving, stirred, unquiet, broken, unfixed, changeable, variable.

Whist Sentence Examples:

• Messages from the capital constantly reached St. Cloud, but the King so little understood his danger and so confidently reckoned on the victory of the troops in the Tuileries that he played whist as usual during the evening; and when the Duc de Mortemart, French Ambassador at St. Petersburg, arrived at nightfall, and pressed for an audience, the King refused to receive him until the next morning.

• She taught Roubaud, Clousier, and the rector to play whist, which Gerard knew already.