Thug

//θʌɡ//

Synonyms for "thug" (206 found)

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Closest matches (42)

Strong matches (61)

Related words (103)

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More general

14 entries

Synonyms

1 entries

capable of

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derived

9 entries

etymologically related_to

2 entries

has context

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is a

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related to

12 entries

Translations

148 translations across 53 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • rampokker noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Albanian

1 entries
  • rrugaç noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Arabic

2 entries
  • بلطجي noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • بَلْطَجِيّ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Armenian

2 entries
  • ավազակ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • մարդասպան noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Avar

1 entries
  • хъачагъ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Basque

1 entries
  • gaizkile noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Belarusian

4 entries
  • банды́т noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • банды́тка noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • галаварэ́з noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • разбо́йнік noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Bengali

3 entries
  • টেঁটন noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • ঠগ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • ঠগ noun (a member of the Thuggee band of assassins)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • банди́т noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • банди́тка noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • главоре́з noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • разбо́йник noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 惡棍 /恶棍 noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • 暴徒 noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • 歹徒 noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Czech

4 entries
  • bandita noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • banditka noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • gangster noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • gangsterka noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Dutch

2 entries
  • schoelie noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • schurk noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • bandito noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • brutulo noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Finnish

1 entries
  • kovanaama noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

French

4 entries
  • bandit noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • casseur noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • coupe-jarret noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • racaille noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Georgian

2 entries
  • ყაჩაღი noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • ჩხუბისთავი noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

German

4 entries
  • Randalierer noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • Rowdy noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • Schläger noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • Schurke noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Greek

1 entries
  • κακοποιός noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Hebrew

2 entries
  • אִישׁ זְרוֹעַ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • בִּרְיוֹן noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Hindi

4 entries
  • टपोरी noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • ठग noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • ठग noun (a member of the Thuggee band of assassins)
  • डाकू noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • bandita noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • gengszter noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • huligán noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • orgyilkos noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Irish

3 entries
  • amhas noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • bithiúnach noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • maistín noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Italian

2 entries
  • delinquente noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • teppista noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Japanese

4 entries
  • サグ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • チンピラ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • 凶悪犯人 noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • 殺し屋 noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Kannada

2 entries
  • ಕೊಲೆಗಡುಕ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • ಕೊಲೆಗಾರ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • баскесер noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Khmer

4 entries
  • កាចកោង noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • តិរច្ឆាន noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • យូកូង noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • អ្នកលេងកាប់ចាក់ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Korean

1 entries
  • 폭력배 noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • banditas noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Malagasy

2 entries
  • jiolahy noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • mpanendaka noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • луйварчин noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Norman

1 entries
  • poltron noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • bølle noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • kjeltring noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Occitan

4 entries
  • bandit noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • gusàs noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • malfaràs noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • sacamand noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Ossetian

1 entries
  • стъигъӕг noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Persian

4 entries
  • اراذل noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • اوباش noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • خلاف کار noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • گانگستر noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Polish

4 entries
  • bandyta noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • bandytka noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • rzezimieszek noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • zbir noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • bandido noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • capanga noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • facínora noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • malfeitor noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Russian

4 entries
  • банди́т noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • банди́тка noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • головоре́з noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • моло́дчик noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • rázbojnica noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • rázbōjnīk noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • ра́збо̄јнӣк noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • ра́збојница noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Slovak

1 entries
  • hrdlorez noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Slovene

2 entries
  • razbojnica noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • razbojnik noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Sotho

1 entries
  • tsotsi noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Spanish

3 entries
  • macarra noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • matón noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • rufián noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Swedish

4 entries
  • bandit noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • bov noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • gangster noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • skurk noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Tamil

1 entries
  • கேடி noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Thai

2 entries
  • นักเลง noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • นักเลงโต noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Turkish

2 entries
  • eşkıya noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • haydut noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • банди́т noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • банди́тка noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • головорі́з noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • горлорі́з noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Urdu

3 entries
  • ٹھگ noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • ٹھگ noun (a member of the Thuggee band of assassins)
  • ڈاکو noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • du côn noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Welsh

4 entries
  • colbiwr noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • llabwst noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • llindagwr noun (a member of the Thuggee band of assassins)
  • llindagwriaeth noun (a member of the Thuggee band of assassins)

Yiddish

2 entries
  • שלאַמער noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)
  • שלעגער noun (someone who treats others violently or roughly)

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

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The small thug beat up the convenience store employee.

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Tom is a thug.

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He's nothing more than a common thug.

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He threw a punch at the thug.

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