Categories: GeneralSynonyms

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

PDF Version

Need another word that means the same as “dagger”? Find 2 synonyms and 30 related words for “dagger” in this overview.

Table Of Contents:

Dagger as a Noun
Definitions of "Dagger" as a noun
Synonyms of "Dagger" as a noun (2 Words)
Usage Examples of "Dagger" as a noun
Associations of "Dagger" (30 Words)

The synonyms of “Dagger” are: obelisk, sticker

Dagger as a Noun

Definitions of "Dagger" as a noun

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

A short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing.
A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote.
A short knife with a pointed and edged blade, used as a weapon.
A moth with a dark dagger-shaped marking on the forewing.

Synonyms of "Dagger" as a noun (2 Words)

obelisk	A mountain tree or other natural object resembling an obelisk in shape.
sticker	An adhesive label. Warning stickers on the glass.

Usage Examples of "Dagger" as a noun

He drew his dagger and stabbed the leader.

Associations of "Dagger" (30 Words)

awl	A small pointed tool used for piercing holes, especially in leather.
axe	Cut or strike with an axe especially violently or destructively. An axe* blade.*
blade	A cut of beef from the shoulder blade. The director a young blade* in an oversized suit.*
brandish	Wave or flourish (something, especially a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement. Brandish a sword.
cleaver	A butcher’s knife having a large square blade. A meat cleaver.
clipper	A fast sailing ship, especially one of 19th-century design with concave bows and raked masts. A set of hair clippers.
fork	Either of two forked parts. The left fork* goes on to the village.*
gig	Long and light rowing boat; especially for racing. They played a gig* in New Jersey.*
harpoon	Spear with a harpoon. Gilbert s father harpooned a five metre basking shark.
hatchet	A small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood.
impale	Transfix or pierce with a sharp instrument. The impaled arms of her husband and her father.
javelin	The athletic sport of throwing a javelin. His nearest rival in the javelin.
knife	Cut or move cleanly through something with a knife like action. The victim was knifed to death.
lance	A weapon resembling a lance used in hunting fish or whales. The prime minister made it one of his priorities to lance* the boil of corruption.*
lancet	Shaped like a lancet arch. A lancet* clock.*
mace	An official who carries a mace of office.
microtome	Scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination.
peeling	Loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales.
pointed	Having a point. Another pointed* look in their direction.*
scabbard	A sheath for the blade of a sword or dagger, typically made of leather or metal. A ceremonial sword hung at his side in a gilded scabbard.
scissor	Cut with or as if with scissors. Frank could see shadowy legs scissoring under the thin skirt as she ran.
scissors	A gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move. A dummy scissors* from David Thomas deceived the opposition.*
sharpen	Give a point to. She sharpened her pencil.
sheathe	Plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh. I sheathed my dagger.
spear	Pierce with a spear. She speared her last chip with her fork.
sword	One of the suits in a tarot pack. Not many perished by the sword.
transfix	To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe. She stared at him transfixed.
trident	A spear with three prongs.
weapon	A thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage. Nuclear weapons.
whet	Sharpen by rubbing as on a whetstone. She took out her dagger and began to whet* its blade in even rhythmic strokes.*