fibre

fibre is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 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 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
2. noun. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
3. noun. Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
4. noun. A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
5. A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.
6. noun. a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth

   Synonyms: fiber

7. noun. the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions- Herbert Spencer

   "education has for its object the formation of character"

   Synonyms: character, fiber

8. noun. any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)

   Synonyms: fiber

9. noun. a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn

   Synonyms: fiber

Synonyms

fiber, character

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in fibre:

bifer, brief, fiber

Common word forms

fibred, fibres, fibreless

Words from these letters

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