An eddy is a circular current of water.
Source: tatoeba (6708782)
Eddy
//ˈɛdi//
Synonyms for "eddy" (84 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
6 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
6 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
1 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 30 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- warrelstrome noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Arabic
1 entries- دُوَّامَة noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Bulgarian
2 entries- вихрушка noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- вихър noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Catalan
2 entries- gorga noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- remolí noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 渦流 /涡流 noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Danish
2 entries- hvirvel noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- strømhvirvel noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Dutch
2 entries- draaikolk noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- werveling noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Faroese
1 entries- íða noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Finnish
1 entries- akanvirta noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
French
3 entries- contre-courant noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- remous noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- tourbillon noun (whirlpool)
Galician
1 entries- remuíño noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
German
1 entries- Wirbel noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Hebrew
2 entries- זֶרֶם עַרְבֹּלֶת noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- עַרְבֹּלֶת noun (whirlpool)
Hungarian
1 entries- bukószél noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Irish
1 entries- saobhshruth noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Italian
4 entries- controcorrente noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- gorgo noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- mulinello noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- vortice noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Japanese
2 entries- 渦 noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- 渦流 noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Korean
2 entries- 소용돌이 noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- 회오리 noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Māori
4 entries- haupongi noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- kōmingomingo noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- kōripo noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- mumuhau noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bakevje noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Occitan
1 entries- remolin noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Polish
4 entries- przeciwprąd noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- wir noun (whirlpool)
- falować verb (to move in, or as if in, an eddy)
- wirować verb (to move in, or as if in, an eddy)
Portuguese
2 entries- remoinho noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- vórtice noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Romanian
4 entries- bulboană noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- contracurent noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- volbură noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- vârtej noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Russian
2 entries- вихрь noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- завихре́ние noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- protustruja noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- vir noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- vrtlog noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Spanish
3 entries- contracorriente noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- remolino noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- revesa noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Swedish
2 entries- eda noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
- strömvirvel noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Tagalog
1 entries- uliuli noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Turkish Sign Language
1 entries- anafor noun (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
You may have seen an eddy if you've ever gone canoeing and you see a small whirlpool of water while you paddle through the water.
Source: tatoeba (6708785)
Eddy has a lot of influence on her. She does everything he says.
Source: tatoeba (12802765)
In the bow old Dobbs fought the stream cunningly, twisting the nose into eddies and backwaters, taking advantage when he could of set of current, and when he could not, paddling doggedly, not so powerfully, perhaps, as his partner, but with equal steadiness.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.