Synonyms and Antonyms for knot
1. knot (n.)
a tight cluster of people or things
2. knot (n.)
any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- half hitch
- loop knot
- clove hitch
- hitch
- sheepshank
- hawser bend
- fisherman's bend
- prolonge knot
- love knot
- carrick bend
- bowknot
- barrel knot
- fixing
- figure eight
- lover's knot
- overhand knot
- sailor's breastplate
- lovers' knot
- slipknot
- square knot
- true lover's knot
- fisherman's knot
- fastening
- blood knot
- true lovers' knot
- figure of eight
- surgeon's knot
- stopper knot
- bow
- truelove knot
- fastener
- Turk's head
- holdfast
- Gordian knot
4. knot (v.)
make into knots; make knots out of
6. knot (n.)
soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
7. knot (n.)
a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
8. knot (n.)
something twisted and tight and swollen
