The blacksmith used a ferrous metal to forge a sturdy horseshoe for the horse.
Source: tatoeba (12601100)
Ferrous
//ˈfɛɹəs//
Synonyms for "ferrous" (29 found)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
14 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 38 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- حَدِيدِيّ adj (of or containing iron)
Armenian
2 entries- երկաթե adj (of or containing iron)
- երկաթյա adj (of or containing iron)
Bashkir
1 entries- тимер adj (of or containing iron)
Breton
2 entries- houarn adj (of or containing iron)
- houarnek adj (of or containing iron)
Bulgarian
1 entries- желе́зен adj (of or containing iron)
Catalan
2 entries- ferrós adj (of or containing iron)
- ferrós adj (chemistry)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鐵製的 /铁制的 adj (of or containing iron)
Czech
1 entries- železnatý adj (chemistry)
Danish
1 entries- jern adj (of or containing iron)
Dutch
1 entries- ijzeren adj (of or containing iron)
Faroese
1 entries- jarn adj (of or containing iron)
Finnish
1 entries- rautainen adj (of or containing iron)
French
1 entries- ferreux adj (of or containing iron)
German
2 entries- eisenhaltig adj (of or containing iron)
- eisern adj (of or containing iron)
Greek
1 entries- σιδερένιος adj (of or containing iron)
Ido
1 entries- fera adj (of or containing iron)
Interlingua
1 entries- ferree adj (of or containing iron)
Irish
4 entries- iarnaí adj (of or containing iron)
- iarnda adj (of or containing iron)
- iarnúil adj (of or containing iron)
- iarnúil adj (chemistry)
Italian
3 entries- ferreo adj (of or containing iron)
- ferrico adj (of or containing iron)
- ferroso adj (of or containing iron)
Japanese
1 entries- 鉄 adj (of or containing iron)
Latin
1 entries- ferreus adj (of or containing iron)
Latvian
1 entries- dzelzs adj (of or containing iron)
Lithuanian
1 entries- geležinis adj (of or containing iron)
Macedonian
1 entries- железен adj (of or containing iron)
Malay
1 entries- ferus adj (of or containing iron)
Māori
2 entries- rino adj (of or containing iron)
- whairino adj (of or containing iron)
Norwegian
2 entries- jern adj (of or containing iron)
- jernholdig adj (of or containing iron)
Polish
2 entries- żelazawy adj (chemistry)
- żelazny adj (of or containing iron)
Portuguese
3 entries- ferroso adj (of or containing iron)
- ferroso adj (chemistry)
- férreo adj (of or containing iron)
Russian
1 entries- желе́зный adj (of or containing iron)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- železan adj (of or containing iron)
- željezan adj (of or containing iron)
Slovak
1 entries- železný adj (of or containing iron)
Southern Altai
1 entries- темирлӱ adj (of or containing iron)
Spanish
4 entries- ferroso adj (of or containing iron)
- ferroso adj (chemistry)
- férreo adj (of or containing iron)
- férrico adj (of or containing iron)
Swedish
2 entries- ferro adj (chemistry)
- järn adj (of or containing iron)
Ukrainian
1 entries- залі́зний adj (of or containing iron)
Vilamovian
1 entries- ȧjzera adj (of or containing iron)
Welsh
2 entries- fferrus adj (chemistry)
- haearnaidd adj (of or containing iron)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Steel is a ferrous metal.
Source: tatoeba (13162313)
Tom takes ferrous sulphate supplements.
Source: tatoeba (13162318)
ferrous metals
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.