morsel | Definition of morsel

Synonyms and Antonyms of morsel

1 a small piece or quantity of food

the chef's cuisine is so good that diners will want to savor every morsel

Synonyms of morsel

bite, mouthful, nibble, nugget, taste, tidbit (also titbit)

Words Related to morsel

collop, medallion, noisette

appetizer, canapé, hors d'oeuvre

bit, chew, crumb, dab, dribble, driblet, fleck, hint, mote, nubbin, particle, pinch, scrap, scruple, shred, smidgen (also smidgeon), snip, snippet, speck, spot, sprinkling, suspicion, tittle, touch, trace

gulp, swallow, swig

2 a very small piece

searching for any morsel of useful information

Synonyms of morsel

atom, bit, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, mote, nubbin, nugget, particle, patch, scrap, scruple, snip, snippet, speck, tittle

Words Related to morsel

ace, dab, dash, driblet, drop, fraction, haet [chiefly Scottish], halfpenny, ha'penny, iota, jot, kenning [chiefly Scottish], lick, minim, mite, modicum, nutshell, ounce, pinch, shred, smatter, smidgen (also smidgeon), spot, strain, streak, suspicion, taste, touch, trace, whisper, whit

bite, mouthful, nibble, tidbit (also titbit)

fragment, part, portion, section

chip, flake, shard, shiver, sliver, splinter

clipping, paring, shaving

Near Antonyms of morsel

chunk, gob, hunk, lump, slab

abundance, barrel, bucket, bushel, deal, heaps, loads, mass, mountain, peck, pile, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, scads, stack, volume, wad, wealth

3 a person of no importance or influence

a morsel like her wouldn't last a week in the rough-and-tumble world of Wall Street

Synonyms of morsel

cipher, dwarf, half-pint, insect, insignificancy, lightweight, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nullity, number, pip-squeak, pygmy (also pigmy), shrimp, snippersnapper, twerp, whippersnapper, zero, zilch

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