Word Type

Verb

Adjective

Noun

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

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

I swear answer beswear could have sworn forswear pinky swear reswear say you swear swear at swear blind swear box swear by swear down swear in swear jar swear like a cutter swear like a pagan swear like a sailor swear like a trooper swear off swear on swear on a stack swear on a stack of Bibles swear out swear the peace swear to God swear upon swear word swearness swearock sweary sweary

Context

dialectal uk

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

declare express give tongue to trust utter verbalise verbalize vow

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

drop the f-bomb outswear

Manner Of

declare vow

Related Terms

cuss up a blue streak pardon my French potty mouth swear word swearing

Related Terms

affirm curse cuss declare dull heavy high lazy niggardly oath offensive promise reluctant rest siesta slow swear word time top heavy unwilling vow

Similar Terms

blaspheme

Synonym Network

affirm curse curse word dull miserly stingy swear word trust

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