A terrible, almost illegible scrawl.
Source: tatoeba (664135)
Scrawl
//skɹɔːl//
Synonyms for "scrawl" (25 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (12)
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4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
4 entriesetymologically related_to
3 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
86 translations across 19 languages.
Armenian
3 entries- խզբզոց noun (irregular handwriting)
- խզբզել verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
- խզբզել verb (to write in an irregular or illegible manner)
Bulgarian
2 entries- драсканица noun (irregular handwriting)
- надрасквам verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 塗鴉 /涂鸦 noun (irregular handwriting)
- 塗鴨 /涂鸭) noun (irregular handwriting)
Czech
2 entries- drápat noun (irregular handwriting)
- škrábat noun (irregular handwriting)
Dutch
2 entries- gekrabbel noun (irregular handwriting)
- krabbel noun (hastily or carelessly written note)
Esperanto
4 entries- skribaĉo noun (irregular handwriting)
- skribaĉo noun (hastily or carelessly written note)
- skribaĉi verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
- skribaĉi verb (to write in an irregular or illegible manner)
Finnish
4 entries- harakanvarpaat noun (irregular handwriting)
- harakanvarpaat noun (hastily or carelessly written note)
- raapustus noun (hastily or carelessly written note)
- riipustus noun (hastily or carelessly written note)
French
3 entries- gribouillage noun (irregular handwriting)
- griffonnage noun (irregular handwriting)
- griffonner verb (to write in an irregular or illegible manner)
German
4 entries- Gekritzel noun (irregular handwriting)
- dahin schmieren verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
- krakeln verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
- kritzeln verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
Hungarian
4 entries- firka noun (hastily or carelessly written note)
- irkafirka noun (hastily or carelessly written note)
- krikszkraksz noun (irregular handwriting)
- macskakaparás noun (irregular handwriting)
Icelandic
4 entries- klór noun (irregular handwriting)
- krot noun (irregular handwriting)
- pírumpár noun (irregular handwriting)
- hripa verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
Ido
2 entries- skribachar verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
- skribachar verb (to write in an irregular or illegible manner)
Italian
4 entries- girigogolo noun (irregular handwriting)
- scarabocchio noun (irregular handwriting)
- scarabocchio noun (hastily or carelessly written note)
- sgorbio noun (irregular handwriting)
Japanese
1 entries- 落書き noun (irregular handwriting)
Polish
4 entries- bazgranina noun (irregular handwriting)
- bazgroły noun (irregular handwriting)
- bohomaz noun (irregular handwriting)
- gryzmoły noun (irregular handwriting)
Portuguese
4 entries- garrancho noun (irregular handwriting)
- garrancho noun (hastily or carelessly written note)
- rabisco noun (irregular handwriting)
- rabiscar verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
Russian
4 entries- кара́кули noun (irregular handwriting)
- крокозя́бры noun (irregular handwriting)
- цара́пать verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
- цара́пать verb (to write in an irregular or illegible manner)
Spanish
3 entries- garrapateo noun (irregular handwriting)
- garrapatear verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
- garrapatear verb (to write in an irregular or illegible manner)
Ukrainian
4 entries- карлючки noun (irregular handwriting)
- нерозбірливий почерк noun (irregular handwriting)
- базграти verb (to write hastily or illegibly)
- базграти verb (to write in an irregular or illegible manner)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
This scrawl is barely legible.
Source: tatoeba (10746087)
She scrawled the main points onto her notepad.
Source: wiktionary
c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift (probably), Sandys's Ghost Though with a golden pen you scrawl.
Source: wiktionary
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