blate

blate is a 5-letter English word with 2 senses as verb and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: cry plaintively. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. verb. cry plaintively

   "The lambs were bleating"

   Synonyms: baa, blat, bleat

2. adjective. disposed to avoid notice; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)

   "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"

   Synonyms: bashful

Synonyms

baa, blat, bleat, bashful

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in blate:

ablet, batel, belat, bleat, tabel, table

Common word forms

blately, blateness

Words from these letters

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