1. pit
noun. ['ˈpɪt'] a sizeable hole (usually in the ground).
Synonyms
- quicksand
- tar pit
- trou-de-loup
- hollow
- cavity
- divot
- sawpit
- sandpit
- borrow pit
- barbecue pit
- fire pit
Antonyms
- proportional font
- leeward
- front
- rear
Etymology
- pit (Dutch)
- pitte (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350))
Featured Games
Words that Rhyme with Pit
- transmit
- resubmit
- presplit
- recommit
- readmit
- submit
- mcnitt
- boblitt
- unfit
- splitt
- split
- savitt
- remit
- refit
- politte
- permit
- legit
- lafitte
- laffitte
- it-wit
- gillett
- douthitt
- douthit
- dewitt
- devitt
- davitt
- commit
- burditt
- befit
- admit
Example sentences of the word pit
1. Noun, singular or mass
A pit trap can be used to catch wild animals.
Quotes containing the word pit
1. If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
- Chuck Palahniuk
2. Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
3. I've got the Mark of Cain,"said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?""You can kill yourself,"Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if you were planning on teaching yourself the lambada on a greased platform over a pit full of knives, I wouldn't.""There goes my Saturday.
- Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
2. pit
verb. ['ˈpɪt'] set into opposition or rivalry.
Synonyms
- match
- face
- confront
- play off
Antonyms
- kern
- muzzle
- hire
- stand still
Etymology
- pit (Dutch)
- pitte (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350))
3. pit
noun. ['ˈpɪt'] (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on.
Synonyms
- area
- commodities market
- commodity exchange
Antonyms
- malfunction
- natural object
- artifact
- achromatic
Etymology
- pit (Dutch)
- pitte (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350))
4. pit
noun. ['ˈpɪt'] an enclosure in which animals are made to fight.
Synonyms
- cockpit
Antonyms
- refrain
- differ
Etymology
- pit (Dutch)
- pitte (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350))
5. pit
noun. ['ˈpɪt'] a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it.
Synonyms
- work
- workplace
- coal mine
- colliery
- coalpit
Antonyms
- fill
- full
- solid
- hollowness
Etymology
- pit (Dutch)
- pitte (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350))
6. pit
verb. ['ˈpɪt'] mark with a scar.
Synonyms
- incise
- disfigure
- cicatrize
- score
- blemish
- cicatrise
- nock
- deface
- pock
- pockmark
- mark
Antonyms
- stay in place
- advance
- open
- invest
Etymology
- pit (Dutch)
- pitte (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350))
7. pit
noun. ['ˈpɪt'] the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed.
Synonyms
- cherry stone
- stone
- endocarp
- peach pit
- pericarp
Antonyms
- avoid
- back
- uncover
- pack
Etymology
- pit (Dutch)
- pitte (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350))
8. pit
noun. ['ˈpɪt'] (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled.
Antonyms
- inactivity
Etymology
- pit (Dutch)
- pitte (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350))
9. pit
verb. ['ˈpɪt'] remove the pits from.
Synonyms
- remove
- withdraw
- take
- take away
Antonyms
- ionate
- calcify
- iodinate
- string
Etymology
- pit (Dutch)
- pitte (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350))
10. pit
noun. ['ˈpɪt'] a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression).
Synonyms
- concavity
- glenoid cavity
- concave shape
- epigastric fossa
- cavity
- incurvature
- incurvation
- glenoid fossa
- cavum
- bodily cavity
- fossa
- mandibular fossa
Antonyms
- burden
- saddle
- charge
- lodge
Etymology
- pit (Dutch)
- pitte (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350))