stick out | Definition of stick out

Synonyms and Antonyms of stick out

1 to extend outward beyond a usual point

no feet sticking out in the aisles, please

Synonyms of stick out

bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bulge, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pooch [chiefly dialect], pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, start, swell

Words Related to stick out

blow up, inflate

dilate, distend, expand

mushroom, snowball

elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch

Near Antonyms of stick out

compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink

2 to put up with (something painful or difficult)

managed to stick out the whole race despite her bad knee

Synonyms of stick out

abide, absorb, accept, bear, bide [chiefly dialect], brook, countenance, endure, go, hack, handle, meet, pocket, stand, stomach, support, sustain, sweat out, take, tolerate, wear [British]

Words Related to stick out

allow, permit, suffer, swallow

acquiesce, agree (with or to), assent (to), capitulate, consent (to), respect, submit (to), yield (to)

Phrases Synonymous with stick out

live with, lump (it), stand for, tough out (it)

Near Antonyms of stick out

decline, dismiss, refuse, reject, repudiate, spurn, turn down

combat, contest, fight, oppose, resist

avoid, bypass, circumvent, dodge, elude, escape, evade, miss

abstain (from), forbear, refrain (from)