CLAY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CLAY?

Need another word that means the same as “clay”? Find 28 synonyms and 30 related words for “clay” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Clay” are: cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff, henry clay, the great compromiser, lucius clay, lucius dubignon clay, mud, earth, terracotta, gault, catlinite, pipeclay, pipestone, argil, china clay, kaolin, adobe, ball clay, bole, pug, sediment, deposit, alluvium, slime, ooze, sludge

Clay as a Noun

Definitions of "Clay" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “clay” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Sediment with particles smaller than silt, typically less than 0.002 mm.
• A hardened clay surface for a tennis court.
• A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
• The substance of the human body.
• Water soaked soil; soft wet earth.
• The dead body of a human being.
• A European moth with yellowish-brown wings.
• A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics.
• United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852.
• United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978.

Synonyms of "Clay" as a noun (28 Words)

adobe	A building constructed from adobe clay or bricks. Adobe houses.
alluvium	Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down.
argil	Clay, especially potter’s clay.
ball clay	United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989.
bole	The main stem of a tree usually covered with bark the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber.
cadaver	The dead body of a human being. The cadaver was intended for dissection.
catlinite	A red clay of the Upper Missouri region, the sacred pipestone of some North American Indian peoples.
china clay	A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong.
corpse	The dead body of a human being. The end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse.
deposit	A facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping. A great quantity of pottery was found in this deposit.
earth	A connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body such as the earth which is taken to be at zero voltage. We now commit his body to the ground earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust.
gault	A thick, heavy clay.
henry clay	United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852.
kaolin	A fine soft white clay, resulting from the natural decomposition of other clays or feldspar. It is used for making porcelain and china, as a filler in paper and textiles, and in medicinal absorbents.
lucius clay	United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978.
lucius dubignon clay	Water soaked soil; soft wet earth.
mud	Slanderous remarks or charges. The two sides took over the local media to throw mud at each other.
ooze	Any thick, viscous matter. I picked a fruit and watched the ooze of fig milk from the stem.
pipeclay	A fine white clay, used especially for making tobacco pipes or for whitening leather.
pipestone	Hard red clay (catlinite) used by North American Indians for tobacco pipes.
pug	A small, slender moth which rests with its wings stretched out to the sides.
remains	The parts left over after other parts have been removed, used, or destroyed. I threw out the remains of my dinner.
sediment	Particulate matter that is carried by water or wind and deposited on the surface of the land or the seabed, and may in time become consolidated into rock. It takes hundreds of thousands of years to turn the sediments into carbonate rock.
slime	An unpleasantly thick and slippery liquid substance. The cold stone was wet with slime.
sludge	Thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components, especially the product of an industrial or refining process. A sludge green.
stiff	An ordinary man. A lucky stiff.
terracotta	A statuette or other object made of terracotta. Terracotta pots.
the great compromiser	A person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field.

Usage Examples of "Clay" as a noun

• Honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay.
• A clay tile.
• This lifeless clay.
• The rocks are covered by various mixtures of loose clays and sands.
• She won more matches on clay than any other player.
• A clay soil.
• The soil is mainly clay.

Associations of "Clay" (30 Words)

adobe	A brick formed from adobe. Adobe houses.
bog	Be prevented from making progress in a task or activity. You must not get bogged down in detail.
brick	Throw bricks at. While updating the firmware the USB cable got disconnected and the phone is now a brick.
ceramic	The art of making ceramic articles. A ceramic bowl.
china	Household tableware or other objects made from china or a similar material. A china cup.
crockery	Tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively.
earthenware	Pottery made of clay fired to a porous state which can be made impervious to liquids by the use of a glaze. An earthenware jug.
gritty	Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency. A gritty look at urban life.
gypsum	A common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris.
kiln	A furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
loam	A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
marsh	Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water. Patches of marsh.
mire	Cause to get stuck as if in a mire. The mud mired our cart.
morass	A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. In midwinter the track beneath this bridge became a muddy morass.
mud	Plaster with mud. The two sides took over the local media to throw mud at each other.
peat	A cut piece of peat. A peat bog.
plaster	Cover a wall ceiling or other structure with plaster. The crumbling plaster ceiling.
porcelain	An article made of porcelain. The paintings porcelains and prints that go on the block.
pottery	A factory or workshop where pottery is made. A visit to a Staffordshire pottery.
quagmire	An awkward, complex, or hazardous situation. A legal quagmire.
quicksand	Loose wet sand that yields easily to pressure and sucks in anything resting on or falling into it. It s best to travel with a local as there are quicksands.
sandy	Resembling or containing or abounding in sand or growing in sandy areas. Pale eyes and receding sandy hair.
silt	A bed or layer of silt. The soil ends up silting up the stream.
slate	A writing tablet made of slate. She was slated to be his successor.
sludge	Any thick, viscous matter. Miscellaneous chemicals and treated sludges.
soil	Make soiled filthy or dirty. Rotary cultivators are ideal particularly on difficult soils.
swamp	An area of waterlogged ground. The ceaseless deluge had turned the lawn into a swamp.
tile	Cover with tiles. Trees shook violently and tiles were dislodged from rooftops.
vale	A valley (used in place names or as a poetic term. The Vale of Glamorgan.
vitrify	Undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like. The option of vitrifying nuclear waste presents problems.