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dipnoun1 a downward slopemarathoners have one last dip before the race course levels off and the finish line comes into view declension, decline, declivity, descent, downgrade, downhill, fall, hang, hanging basin, depression, hollow acclivity, ascent, rise, upgrade, uphill, uprise glacis, grade, gradient, hill, inclination, incline, lean, pitch, rake, tilt the act or process of going to a lower level or altitudethe city's population has taken a slight dip since the last census descent, dive, down, drop, fall, nosedive, plunge comedown, decline, downfall, downgradeplummeting, sinking ascent, climb, rise, rising, soaring, upswing, upturn advance, headway, progress, progressionbetterment, improvement dipnoun2a stupid personhow did that dip get through medical school? airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clodpoll(or clodpole), clot(British), cluck, clunk, cretin, cuddy(or cuddie, British dialect), deadhead, dim bulb(slang), dimwit, dodo, dolt, donkey, doofus(slang), dope, dork(slang), dullard, dum-dum, dumbbell, dumbhead, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, gander, golem, goof, goon, half-wit, hammerhead, hardhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, know-nothing, knucklehead, lamebrain, loggerhead(chiefly dialect), loon, lump, lunkhead, meathead, mome(archaic), moron, mug(chiefly British), mutt, natural, nimrod(slang), nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit(chiefly British), nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull(or numbskull), oaf, pinhead, prat(British), ratbag(chiefly Australian), saphead, schlub(also shlub, slang), schnook(slang), simpleton, stock, stupe, stupid, thickhead, turkey, woodenhead, yahoo, yo-yo booby, buffoon, fool, goose, loony, lunatic, madman, nut, zanylosergawkfeatherbrain, scatterbrainbeast, boor, cad, churl, clown, creep, cur, heel, jerk, skunk, snake, stinker, villain dumb cluck brain, genius egghead, intellect, intellectual, sage, thinker, whiz, wizardpolymath, Renaissance mansharpie(or sharpy) dipverbto sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquidfirst dip a paper towel in water she dipped a hand into her pocket and pulled out a piece of candy douse(also dowse), duck, dunk, immerse, souse, sop, submerge, submerse bathe, moisten, soak, steep, wetdrench, drown, flooddive, plunge, thrust to lift out with something that holds liquidcarefully dipped water from the bucket to the kettle bucket, lade, ladle, scoop, spoon baildeplete, drain, eliminate, empty, exhaustbleed, draw (off)dishslopdecant, draw, pump, siphon(also syphon), suction pourfill to go to a lower level especially abruptlythe temperature dipped a bit in the evening crash, crater, decline, descend, dive, drop, fall, lower, nose-dive, plummet, plunge, sink, skid, tumble abate, decrease, de-escalate, die (down), diminish, droop, dwindle, ebb, lessen, let up, moderate, subside, taper off, wanerecede, retreat arise, ascend, lift, mount, rise, soar, spike, up accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon(also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mushroom, pick up, snowball, swell, wax to lead or extend downwardslow down, the road dips here decline, descend, drop, fall, plunge, sink angle, cant, cock, heel, incline, lean, list, recline, slant, slope, tilt, tip arise, ascend, climb, mount, rise, uprise, upsweep, upturn even, flatten, level, plane, smooth, straighten to take a quick or hasty lookI dipped into the book, but I didn't have a chance to study it thoroughly browse, glance, glimpse, glint, peek, skim keek(chiefly Scottish), peepblink, squintlook over, peruse, rake, scan gaze, stare examine, overlook, oversee, question, surveystudy, viewpeer, prygawk, goggle, rubberneckleer, ogle before the 12th century |