Metal contracts when cooled.
Source: tatoeba (18498)
Metal
/ˈmɛ.təl/
Synonyms for "metal" (226 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (46)
Strong matches (67)
chiefchromechromiumcoat of armscobaltcobblestonecockatriceconcretecoppercoronetcrescentcrestcrosscross molinecrowndevicedifferencedifferencingdutch foildysprosium
Show 46 more words
eagleearth metalserbiumermineermineserminiteserminoisescutcheoneuropiumfalconfessfess pointfieldfileflagflanchfleur-de-lisfloorfretfurfusilgadoliniumgalliumgarlandgermaniumgoldgold dustgold foilgold leafgriffingulesgyronhatchmenthelmetheraldic deviceholmiumhonor pointimpalementimpalingindiuminescutcheoniridiumironlabellanthanumlead
Noun(1 words)
Related words (113)
lead foillionlithiumlozengelutetiummagnesiamagnesiummanganesemantlingmarshalingmartletmasclemercurymetal foilmetal leafmetalleitymetallicmetallicitymetallicsmetallike
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metallinemetalloidmetalwaremetalworkmolybdenummottomulletnative metalsneodymiumnickelniobiumnoble metalsnombril pointoctofoilorordinaryorganometallicorleosmiumpalepalladiumpalypavepeanpebblepheonphosphorusplatinumpoloniumpotassiumpraseodymiumprecious metalspromethiumprotactiniumpurpurequarterquarteringradiumrare metalsrheniumroserubidiumrutheniumsablesaltiresamariumscandiumscutcheonsemimetalshieldsilversilver foilsodiumspread eaglestrontiumsubordinarytantalumtartechnetiumtenneterbiumthalliumthuliumtintincturetinfoiltitaniumtorsetressuretungstenunicornuraniumvairvanadiumvertwolframwreathyaleytterbiumyttriumzinczirconium
Adjective(1 words)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: metallic element, achievement, aes, alerion, alloy.
- Sentence evidence is available for metal, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from wordnet, opengloss, moby, derived_reverse, and related lexical sources.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "metal".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "metal"
Keep "metal" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "metal" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "metal", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "metal" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
8 entriesMore specific
6 entriesCollocations
10 entriesferrous metalmetal alloymetal detectormetal finishmetal framemetal rulermetal sheetmetal surfacemetal wirerecycled metal
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
4 entriessimilar
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
147 translations across 116 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- аметалл noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Afrikaans
1 entries- metaal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Albanian
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μέταλλον noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Arabic
3 entries- فِلِزّ noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- معدن noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- مَعْدِن noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Armenian
1 entries- մետաղ noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Assamese
1 entries- ধাতু noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Asturian
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Avar
1 entries- металл noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Basque
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Belarusian
3 entries- мета́л noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- мэта́л noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- мэта́ль noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Bengali
1 entries- ধাতু noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Breton
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Brunei Malay
1 entries- basi noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мета́л noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Burmese
1 entries- သတ္တု noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Carpathian Rusyn
2 entries- ков noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- мета́л noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Catalan
1 entries- metall noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Chechen
1 entries- металл noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 金屬 /金属 noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 金 noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- 金屬 /金属 noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Chukchi
1 entries- пыԓвынтын noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Czech
1 entries- kov noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Danish
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Dari
1 entries- فِلِز noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Dutch
1 entries- metaal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Eastern Bontoc
2 entries- komak noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- lanchok noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Esperanto
1 entries- metalo noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Estonian
1 entries- metall noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Ewe
1 entries- ga noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Faroese
3 entries- málmbland noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- málmur noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- skervur noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Finnish
1 entries- metalli noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
French
1 entries- métal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Galician
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Georgian
2 entries- ლითონი noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- მეტალი noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
German
1 entries- Metall noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Greek
1 entries- μέταλλο noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Gujarati
1 entries- ધાતુ noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַתֶּכֶת noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Hindi
2 entries- धात noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- धातु noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Hungarian
2 entries- fém noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- érc noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Icelandic
1 entries- málmur noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Ido
1 entries- metalo noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Ilocano
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Indonesian
1 entries- logam noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Interlingua
1 entries- metallo noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- فِلِز noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Irish
1 entries- miotal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Italian
1 entries- metallo noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Japanese
2 entries- 金 noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- 金属 noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Kalmyk
1 entries- төмрлг noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Kazakh
1 entries- металл noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Khmer
1 entries- លោហៈ noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Korean
1 entries- 금속 noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- металл noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Lao
1 entries- ໂລຫະ noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Latin
1 entries- metallum noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Latvian
1 entries- metāls noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Lithuanian
1 entries- metãlas noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Macedonian
1 entries- метал noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Malagasy
1 entries- metaly noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Malay
1 entries- logam noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Malayalam
1 entries- ലോഹം noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Marathi
1 entries- धातू noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Middle English
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Middle Irish
1 entries- mital noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Mongolian
2 entries- металл noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- ᠮᠧᠲ᠋ᠠᠯ noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Māori
2 entries- maitai noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- mētara noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Navajo
1 entries- béésh noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Nepali
1 entries- धातु noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- kanza noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- metall noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- metall noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Occitan
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Ossetian
2 entries- згъӕр noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- металл noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- معدن noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Pali
1 entries- loha noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Pashto
2 entries- زر noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- فلز noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Mettol noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Polish
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Portuguese
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Quechua
2 entries- chuqi noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- q'illay noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Romanian
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Russian
2 entries- круше́ц noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- мета́лл noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Sanskrit
3 entries- अयस् noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- धातु noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- लोह noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kȍvina noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- mètāl noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- ко̏вина noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- мѐта̄л noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Sikkimese
1 entries- ལྕགས་རིགས noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Slovak
1 entries- kov noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Slovene
1 entries- kovina noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Southern Altai
2 entries- металл noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- темир noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Southern Kalinga
1 entries- aka noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Spanish
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Swahili
1 entries- metali noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Swedish
1 entries- metall noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Tagalog
3 entries- bakal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- kansa noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Tajik
2 entries- металл noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- фулуз noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Tamil
1 entries- உலோகம் noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Telugu
1 entries- లోహము noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Thai
1 entries- โลหะ noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Tibetan
1 entries- ལྕགས་རིགས noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Tupinambá
1 entries- itá noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Turkish
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Turkmen
1 entries- metal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Tuvan
1 entries- демир noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Tuwali Ifugao
2 entries- gum'ok noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- landuk noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мета́л noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Urdu
1 entries- دھات noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Uyghur
1 entries- مېتال noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Uzbek
2 entries- metall noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- temir noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Veps
1 entries- metall noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kim loại noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
West-Frisian
1 entries- metaal noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
White Hmong
1 entries- hlau noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Yiddish
1 entries- מעטאַל noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Zhuang
1 entries- gimsug noun (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
The acid burned the metal.
Source: tatoeba (18499)
Gold is more precious than any other metal.
Source: tatoeba (18601)
Hey, rust is eating away the metal.
Source: tatoeba (33138)
Showing 4 of 23 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "metal"?
Closest matches include metallic element, achievement, aes, alerion, alloy.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "metal"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.