Word Type

Noun

Verb

Adjective

Intj

Adjective

The word "bully" can be used as noun, verb, adjective, intj and adjective.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

school

Capable Of

box ears call names corner needle weakling push around start fight starting fight trip nerd

Causes Desire

hurt else

Derived Terms

American bully XL bully antibully bulliable bulliness bully XL bully boy bully pulpit bully stick bully tree bully-boy bully-off bullyable bullycide bullydom bullyee bullyish bullyism bullylike bullyman bullyproof bullysome crybully cyberbully flat-track bully nonbully outbully

Etymologically Related To

boy bull

Context

dialectal field hockey irish mining slang us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

aggressor assailant assaulter attacker blarney cajole coax goon hood hoodlum intimidate inveigle palaver punk strong-armer sweet-talk thug tough toughie wheedle

Type Of (IsA)

attacker hood person video game

Not Desires

show mercy

Related Terms

aggressively brackishwater brisk brother bully beef companion comrade cruel darling dashing excellent fellow field game for freshwater hammer hired hockey stick intimidate mate minder pimp prostitute scrum standoff sweetheart thug well done workman

Similar Terms

good

Synonym Network

bang up bravo browbeat browbeater cow dashing domineer excellent hector henchman hired thug intimidate marvellous marvelous pimp ponce push around ride roughshod over splendid strong arm super superb thug top notch well done

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.