except

except is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, preposition, conjunction, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
2. transitive verb. To object to; to protest against.
3. intransitive verb. To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
4. preposition. With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
5. conjunction. Unless; if it be not so that.
6. verb. prevent from being included or considered or accepted

   "The bad results were excluded from the report"

   "Leave off the top piece"

   Synonyms: exclude, omit

7. verb. take exception to

   "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"

   Synonyms: demur

Synonyms

exclude, omit, demur

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in except:

expect

Common word forms

excepts, excepted, excepter, excepting, exceptless

Words from these letters

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