It's better to be a shallow stream than a deep vortex.
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Vortex
/ˈvɔɹtɛks/
Synonyms for "vortex" (129 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (64)
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More general
10 entriesMore specific
10 entriesattention vortexcontroversy vortexcyclonedust devilmarket vortextornadoturmoil vortexvortex streetwaterspoutwhirlwind
Collocations
6 entriescentral vortexvortex corevortex latticevortex ringvortex sheddingvortex street
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 31 languages.
Aromanian
2 entries- viro noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vãltoari noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Bulgarian
1 entries- водовъртеж noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Catalan
2 entries- remolí noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vòrtex noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 渦旋 /涡旋 noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Czech
1 entries- vír noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Danish
1 entries- hvirvel noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Dutch
3 entries- draaikolk noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- wervel noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- wervelwind noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Esperanto
2 entries- kirlo noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vortico noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Finnish
1 entries- pyörre noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
French
1 entries- tourbillon noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Galician
2 entries- remuíño noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vórtice noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Georgian
1 entries- მორევი noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
German
1 entries- Wirbel noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Greek
1 entries- δίνη noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Icelandic
1 entries- hringiða noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Ido
1 entries- vortico noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Japanese
1 entries- 渦 noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Korean
1 entries- 소용돌이 noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Latin
1 entries- vortex noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- babelîsk noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- bagerr noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Norwegian
1 entries- hvirvelstrøm noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Polish
1 entries- wir noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Portuguese
4 entries- redemoinho noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- remoinho noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- rodamoinho noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- turbilhão noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Romanian
3 entries- bulboană noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vâltoare noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vârtej noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Russian
3 entries- вихрь noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- водоворо́т noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- воро́нка noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- vir noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vrtlog noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- вир noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- вртлог noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Spanish
1 entries- remolino noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Turkish
2 entries- burgaç noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- girdap noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ви́хор noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- коло́ворот noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Welsh
2 entries- llynclyn noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- trobwll noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
West-Frisian
1 entries- draaikolk noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Is it true that my mind is only a harmony, and my soul a vortex?
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Tom was sucked into the vortex.
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I was pulled into the free software vortex and have never escaped.
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