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

Need another word that means the same as “tentacle”? Find 2 synonyms for “tentacle” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Tentacle” are: antenna, horn

Tentacle as a Noun

Definitions of "Tentacle" as a noun

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

• Any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion.
• A slender, flexible limb or appendage in an animal, especially around the mouth of an invertebrate, used for grasping or moving about, or bearing sense organs.
• Something resembling a tentacle in shape or flexibility.
• Something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold.
• (in a plant) a tendril or a sensitive glandular hair.
• An insidious spread of influence and control.

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

Usage Examples of "Tentacle" as a noun

• Trailing tentacles of vapour.
• Caught in the tentacles of organized crime.
• The Party's tentacles reached into every nook and cranny of people's lives.