Academic Dictionary
Home / Thesaurus / Willow
Find the word that fits

Willow: alternatives and connections

Begin with the reviewed alternatives, then explore broader connections without treating every related word as an automatic substitute.

Try an example: important law show help change happy
26,102 words currently have published synonym-style alternatives
90,593 searchable synonym connections
350,924 published thesaurus relationships of every type
Start with the meaning

Willow

Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. "A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight." Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.

View the full dictionary entry Compare this word with another →
43 useful connections shown 3 reviewed relationships and 40 broader connections.
Best place to begin

Reviewed alternatives and contrasts

These links were deliberately created. Use the interchangeability score and guidance to judge whether a word will work in your sentence.

Narrower term 2

Osier 76% connected

A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the will…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Definition Compare both words
Sallow 76% connected

The willow; willow twigs.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Definition Compare both words

Broader term 1

Tree 76% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Definition Compare both words
Explore further

Words from the same subject

These terms belong to the same specialist field or topic. They help you explore the subject, but they are not automatically synonyms.

Stress noun · 85% connection

(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of a…

Used in the same subject area: Mechanical engineering, Nature and environment, Engineering.
Definition Compare
Fabrication noun · 78% connection

the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the…

Used in the same subject area: Mechanical engineering, Engineering.
Definition Compare
Fluid mechanics noun · 78% connection

study of the mechanics of fluids

Used in the same subject area: Mechanical engineering, Engineering.
Definition Compare
Hydraulics noun · 78% connection

study of the mechanics of fluids

Used in the same subject area: Mechanical engineering, Engineering.
Definition Compare
Manufacture noun · 78% connection

the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the…

Used in the same subject area: Mechanical engineering, Engineering.
Definition Compare
Manufacturing noun · 78% connection

the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the…

Used in the same subject area: Mechanical engineering, Engineering.
Definition Compare
Explore further

Words connected by meaning

Their definitions overlap or refer to similar ideas. Use these to widen your search, then compare the exact meanings.

Analogue noun · 78% connection

A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Arbuscle noun · 78% connection

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Breadfruit noun · 78% connection

The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Bush noun · 78% connection

A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Chaetopoda n. pl. · 78% connection

A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They ar…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Chrysanthemum noun · 78% connection

A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and p…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Currant noun · 78% connection

A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Desertion noun · 78% connection

The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Desolatory adjective · 78% connection

Causing desolation.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Emblem noun · 78% connection

A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural ap…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Emblematical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Frog noun · 78% connection

An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Garfish noun · 78% connection

One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Genus noun · 78% connection

An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Gooseberry adjective · 78% connection

Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Hazel noun · 78% connection

A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the fi…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Helicin noun · 78% connection

A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.)

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
Holly noun · 78% connection

A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, wav…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, shrub, genus, salix, including.
Definition Compare
All dictionary tools

Explore Academic Dictionary

The same nine destinations available from the header menu are shown here as a clear, fully visible grid.

Dictionary Definitions and meanings Thesaurus Synonyms with nuance Academic writing Evidence and analysis Professional Workplace vocabulary Word origins Etymology and roots Subjects Specialist dictionaries Word clusters Connected vocabulary Word similarity Compare two words Crossword Play with vocabulary