What is One Word Substitution?
One Word Substitution is the use of single word in place of wordy phrases in order to improve the sentence structure and clear meaning. Using one word substitution helps in shortening the sentence without altering meaning.
One Word Substitution questions can be framed from many parts of vocabulary like root words, collective nouns, young one of animal. You could find posts on these topics under One Word Substitution tag in our site.
Examples of One Word Substitution
Find the important one word substitution related to generic terms.
Expression for generic term | One Word Substitution |
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Partner in crime | Accomplice |
One who denies the existence of the devil or demons | Adiabolist/ Ademonist |
A complete inability to speak; mutism | Alalia |
A partial of total loss of memory | Amnesia |
Loss of the sense of smell | Anosmia |
A person who studies or collects antiques or antiquities | Antiquarian |
Temporary cessation of breathing, especially during sleep | Apnea/apnoea |
A material that can sustain strong heat without altering its property; as asbestos, talc etc. | Apyrous |
Who repairs or makes weapon | Armourer |
A ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral | Atoll |
A materialistic, complacent, and conformist businessman. | Babbitt |
A worker who works when others are on strike | Blackleg |
A witty remark | Bon mot |
A person who devotes themselves to a sociable and luxurious lifestyle | Bon vivant |
Who is physically strong or muscular | Brawny |
The dead body of an animal. | Carcass |
Waterfall or group of waterfall | Cascade |
A reflective stud set into a road as one of a series to mark traffic lanes or the edge of the carriageway by reflecting light from headlights | Cat’s eye |
Deliberately hurtful in one’s remarks; spiteful | Catty |
That eats onions | Cepivorous |
A person who pretends to have skills or knowledge that they do not have, especially in medicine # Charlatans and showmen and medical quacks call things facts that are not facts. | Charlatan |
A large French country house or castle, often giving its name to wine made in its neighbourhood | Chateau |
The art of dancing | Choreography |
A person or thing of unrecognised merit | Cinderella |
(Typically, of a woman) pleasant to look at; attractive | Comely |
A fellow citizen or national of a country # Stich defeated his compatriot Boris Becker in the quarter-finals. | Compatriot |
A railway carriage with seats convertible into sleeping berths. | Couchette |
A conceited and showy person | Coxcomb |
Where dead bodies are cremated | Crematorium |
The situation in which someone important gives jobs to friends/relatives rather than to independent people who have the necessary skills and experience | Cronyism |
A person who enjoys or is skilled at solving crosswords | Cruciverbalist |
A person or thing that is defunct or has no chance of success | Dead duck |
Impassive or expressionless | Deadpan |
(of a man) confident, stylish, and charming | Debonair |
A state of damage due to old age or long use | Decrepitude |
God willing; if nothing prevents it # She has signed the lease for the house—it will be for both of them, Deo volente. | Deo volente (adv) |
A celebrated female opera singer | Diva |
A bag used by a restaurant customer or party guest to take home leftover food, supposedly for their dog. | Doggy bag |
Who drives animal | Drover |
A person who has to work hard at boring and unpleasant tasks and who is not respected by other people | Drudge |
A symbol that shows your feeling | Emoticon |
Concluding part of a literary work | Epilogue |
An entertainer specializing in freeing themselves from the confinement of such things as ropes, handcuffs, and chains | Escapologist |
The persuasion of Christianism | Evangelism |
A short story with animal characters with a moral | Fable |
Who is extremely wicked | Facinorous |
Not emotionally involved with or committed to anyone # Her recent divorce meant that she was footloose and fancy-free. | fancy-free |
One who believes in fate | Fatalist |
A bad tempered women with loud voice | Fishwife |
A women who can’t be relied on | Flighty |
A person who is very old-fashioned and pompous | Fuddy-duddy |
A person who talks excessively about trivial things | Gasbag |
Living or growing in or on the ground | Geophilous |
Relating to old age | Geriatric |
Who writes for another writer | Ghost writer |
A person or thing that has no chance of continuing to live # I thought I was a goner when I saw that car heading towards me. | Goner |
A woman whose husband is away often or for a prolonged period | Grass widow |
A man who carries and readily uses a gun | Gunslinger |
Realistic and determined; tough-minded. # A hard-nosed businessman. | Hard-nosed |
A person who steers a ship or boat. | Helmsman |
A person who sells small items door-to-door or from a stall | Huckster |
That can’t be destroyed | Imperishable |
Out of place | Incongruous |
Inability to sleep | Insomnia |
A feeling of fatigue experienced by air-travellers | Jet lag |
A person who deliberately spoils the enjoyment of others | Killjoy |
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation | Kiss of life |
A skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Lapidist |
using ostentatiously recondite words | Lexiphanic |
A person or thing vital to an enterprise or organization. # Nurses are the linchpin of the National Health Service. | Linchpin |
A man/woman who helps children to cross the road | Lollipop man/women |
A person who is famous and important in a particular area of activity. # Luminaries of stage and screen (= famous actors) assembled for last night’s awards ceremony. | Luminary |
A clumsy person | Lummox |
A wealthy and influential businessman or businesswoman | Magnate |
A dummy used to display clothes in a shop window || a person employed by a designer or shop to model clothes | Mannequin |
A person who believes in strict discipline | Martinet |
A person believed to have magical/supernatural powers that can heal illness and keep away evil spirit; SHAMAN | Medicine man |
Civilian trained as soldiers | Militia |
A person who is skilled at mixing cocktails and other drinks. | Mixologist |
An important and powerful person | Mogul |
One who is confused | Muddled |
An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Necropsy/ autopsy |
Who actively use internet | Netizen |
An overly inquisitive person | Nosy parker |
Related to Europe or America | Occidental |
A silly or annoying old person | Old bat |
Who has been in prison many times | Old lag |
Related to Asia | Oriental |
Animal who lay eggs | Oviparous |
A word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards, e.g. madam or nurses run | Palindrome |
A sentence containing every letter of the alphabet | Pangram |
A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels | Parable |
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | Allegory |
A perfect example | Paragon |
A lover, and often a secret one you’re not married to | Paramour |
A person who lends money at interest on the security of an article pawned | Pawnbroker |
Who is untrustworthy | Perfidious |
The feathers that cover a bird | Plumage |
A liquid with healing, magical, or poisonous properties. | Potion |
Previous to the birth of an infant | Prenatal |
The action of prophesying future events | Prognostication |
Childishly silly and immature | Puerile |
An impudent or badly behaved girl or woman | Quean |
Who is extremely hungry | Ravenous |
A convicted criminal who reoffends, especially repeatedly. | Recidivist |
A right-hand page of an open book, or the front of a loose document | Recto |
A left-hand page of an open book, or the back of a loose document | Verso |
A strong and unpleasant smell | Reek |
A person who has many tenets | Renaissance Man |
Pretending to be religious # Showed his hypocrisy in a sanctimonious display of piety. | Sanctimonious |
A person who spreads frightening or ominous reports or rumors. | Scaremonger |
Severely abusive writing in journals | Scurrilous |
An old or experienced sailor | Sea dog |
A person who is in his seventies | Septuagenarian |
Someone who is 100 years old or more | Centenarian |
A woman who is considered to be very attractive, but also dangerous | Siren |
A hump in the road intended to cause traffic to reduce speed | Sleeping policemen |
Great carelessness | Slipshod |
A person who walks in sleep [n: somnambulism] | Somnambulist |
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes | Sonnet |
A person acting as a decoy or informer especially a spy sent into a group to report (as to the police) on its activities | Stool pigeon |
One who is too old to work | Superannuated |
Who is deaf and dumb | Surdimute |
The most important part | The $64,000 question |
One who is very sensitive to criticism or insults | Thin-skinned |
Passing of soul from one body to another | Transmigration |
A person who changes from one opinion to an opposite one | Turncoat |
Who manages funerals | Undertaker |
A person who is unduly anxious about their health. | Valetudinarian |
A person who causes destruction to public property | Vandal |
1. A wine merchant. 2. A person who makes wine. | Vinter |
Animals who produce young ones | Viviparous |
A peeping Tom | Voyeur |
A person who encourages or advocates aggression towards other countries or groups | Warmonger |
Someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Welsher |
A woman employed to suckle another woman’s child | Wet nurse |
One Word Substitution for Branches of Science
If –ist is added instead of ‘y’ in the word it means the person who study the subject. As for example Anthropology is the study of mankind but Anthropologist is someone who study anthropology.
The expression for one word substitution | Branch of Science |
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the study of mankind | anthropology |
the study of ancient civilization | archaeology |
the study of fruits and seeds | carpology |
the study of codes | cryptology |
the study of cells | cytology |
the study of fingerprints | dactylology |
the study of worms and insects | entomology |
the study of human races | ethnology |
the study of origin of a word and its historical development in meaning | etymology |
study of life on other planets and outer space | exobiology |
study of earth | geology |
the study of worms | helminthology |
the study of plant tissue | histology |
the branch of science dealing with fishes | ichthyology |
study of rocks | lithology |
the study of fungi | mycology |
study of cancer/tumors | oncology |
the study of bird’s eggs | oology |
the study of birds | ornithology |
the study of mountain | orology |
the study of fossil plants | palaeobotany |
the study of fossil animals and plants | palaeontology |
the study of disease | pathology |
the study of languages | philology |
the study of sounds | phonetics |
the study of algae | phycology |
the study of the moon | selenology |
the study of blood serum for diagnosis | serology |
the study of flags | vexillology |
One Word Substitution for types of Government
Government/system | One word substitution |
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Government by none | Acracy/ anarchy |
Government by white people | Albocracy |
Government by the nobility | Aristocracy |
Government by one individual | Autocracy |
A self-governing body | Autonomy |
Government by civil servants | Bureaucracy |
Government by the people | Democracy |
Government by elderly people | Gerontocracy |
Government by the military | Hoplarchy |
Government by the wicked people | Kakistocracy |
Government by judges | Kritarchy |
Government by one individual | Monocracy |
Government by newbie | Neocracy |
Government by mobs | Ochlocracy |
A small group of people having control of a country or organization | Oligarchy |
Government by wealthy | Plutocracy |
Government officially neutral to religious aspect of citizen | Secular |
Government by rules of Gods adopted by state or country Government ruled by God(s) | Theocracy Thearchy |
Government by a body of foreigners | Xenocracy |
Young One of animals
Young One | Animal |
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Calf | Cow, elephant |
Chicken | Hen |
Cub | Tiger, bear, fox, wolf |
Cygnet | Swan |
Duckling | Duck |
Eaglet | Eagle |
Fawn | Deer, stag |
Foal | Horse [colt→ male foal; filly→ female foal] |
Foal/Colt/filly | Horse |
Gosling | Goose |
Joey | Marsupial babies [koala, kangaroo, wallaby, wombat, opossum] |
Kid | Goat |
Kitten | Cat |
Lamb | Sheep |
Leveret | Hare |
Porkling | Boar/pig |
Puppy | Dog |
Tadpole | Frog |
Whelp/cub | Lion |
Cries of animals/birds
Cry | Animals/birds |
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gibber | apes |
screech | bats |
growl | bears |
hum/buzz | bees |
chirrup/chirp/twitter/tweet/sing/whistle | birds |
bleat | calves |
grunt | camels |
mew/purr/meow/hiss/yowl | cats |
moo/low/bawl (calf) bellow (bull) | cattle |
cluck/cackle | chickens |
cheep | chicks (a young bird, especially one newly hatched) |
crow | cocks |
low, moo | cows |
chirp, creak | crickets |
caw | crows |
bell | deers |
bark/yelp/growl/howl | dogs |
click | dolphins |
bray | donkeys |
coo | doves |
quack | ducks |
scream | eagles |
trumpet/roar | elephants |
buzz/hum | flies |
bark/yelp/simper | foxes |
croak | frogs |
cackle/quack | geese |
bleat | giraffes |
bleat | goats |
chirp | grasshoppers |
squeak | hamsters |
squeak | hares |
cackle, cluck | hens |
grunt | hogs |
neigh/snort/whinny/nicker | horses |
whisper/whistle/cry/scream/sing/talk | humans |
hum | hummingbirds |
laugh/scream | hyenas |
howl | jackals |
chortle | kangaroos |
scream/bellow/wail | koalas |
bleat | lambs |
sing/warble | larks |
roar/growl | lions |
squeak/squeal | mice |
chatter/gibber/whoop/screech | monkeys |
whine | mosquitoes |
pipe/sing/warble | nightingales |
chirp/bark/hiss/low hum | ostriches |
hoot/scream/screech/shriek | owls |
bellow/low | oxen |
talk/screech/squawk | parrots |
scream | peacocks |
coo | pigeons |
snort/grunt/squeal/oink | pigs |
squeak/drum | rabbits |
squeak | rats |
croak | ravens |
bellow | rhinoceros |
crow | rooster |
scream/squawk | seagulls |
bark | seals |
bleat | sheep |
hiss | snakes |
bark | squirrel |
growl/roar | tigers |
gobble | turkeys |
scream | vultures |
sing | whales |
howl/cry/yell | wolves |
whinny | zebras |
Sounds made by objects
Sound | Object or Animal |
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bang/slam | doors |
beat | drums |
blare | trumpet |
blow/call | bugles |
boom/roar | guns |
bubble/purl | streams |
buzz | telephone |
chatter | teeth |
clang | arms, anvil |
clap | hands |
clatter | hoofs or hooves |
clinks jingles | coin (by one coin) coin (by more than one coin) |
crack | whips |
crackles | fire |
crackles | wood |
cracks | nuts |
creak | hinges |
creak | shoes |
flap/flatter | sails |
flutter | flags |
hisses | steam |
howls/sigh | wind |
laps | water |
lisp | babies |
pattern/drips | rain |
pearl/ring | bell |
rattle | dishes |
rattle/ramble | carriages |
ring | metals |
ripple | waves |
rolls/rumples | thunder |
rumble | trains |
rustle | leaves |
rustles | silk |
screech | brakes |
shriek | whistle |
sigh/crash | trees |
sound/patter/tramp | feet |
thunder | clouds |
tick | clocks |
tinkle | glasses |
toot | horns |
twang | bows |
whir/flap/flatter | wings |
zoom | aeroplanes |
Special movement of animals
Motion | Creature |
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amble | elephants |
climb | monkeys |
flap | crows |
flit | owls |
flit | sparrows |
fly | birds |
frisk | lambs |
leap | rabbits |
lope | wolves |
lumber | bear |
prowls | lions |
run | bulls |
run | dogs |
scamper | mice |
soar | larks |
steal | cats |
strut | cocks |
swoop | eagles |
trot | donkeys |
trot | pigs |
trot/gallop | horse |
waddle | ducks |
walk/stroll/pace/plod/march/hobble | persons |
wander | cows |
Homes of Animals
Home | Creature |
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asylum | lunatic |
barrack/camp | soldiers |
hive | bee |
byre/shed | cow |
caravan | gipsy |
castle/mansion | noble |
cell | prisoner |
convent | nun |
coop | fowl |
cottage | peasant |
den | lion |
dovecot | pigeon |
drey | squirrel |
earth | fox |
eyrie | eagle |
farm | hare |
hole | mouse |
house | man |
hut | savage |
hutch/burrow | rabbit |
kennel | dog |
liar | tiger |
monastery | monk |
nest | bird |
palace | king |
parsonage | parson |
pen/fold | sheep |
prison | convict |
stable | horse |
sty | pig |
tent | arab |
web | spider |
whare | maori (a member of the aboriginal people of new zealand) |
wigwam | red indian |
Names of places where things are made or kept
Where Made/Kept | Things or Animals |
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aerodrome | aeroplanes |
apiary | bees |
aquarium | fish |
arsenal | weapon ammunition |
bakery | bread |
brewery | beer |
cage/aviary | birds |
cloak-room | luggage at railway station |
cylinder | gas |
dairy | butter, cream |
dockyard | ships |
factory | goods manufactured |
garage | motor car |
godown | wares/warehouse |
granary | grain |
kiln | ricks |
kitchen | food |
menagerie | wild animals |
mill | flour |
mint | coin |
museum | historical relics or curios |
nursery | young plants or children |
orchard | fruit trees |
pantry | provisions etc. in the house |
press | paper, notes of currency |
smithy | iron goods |
studio | films |
tannery | leather goods |
theatre | plays, films |
vineyards | grapes |
wardrobe | cloths |
zoo | animals and birds |
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