PIPS Synonyms: 130 Similar and Opposite Words

pips 1 of 4

noun (1)

plural of pip

as in dots

a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part a black horse with white pips

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pips

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noun (2)

plural of pip

as in beauties

something very good of its kind that new sports car is a real pip

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pips

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noun (3)

plural of pip, chiefly British

as in frustrations

the feeling of impatience or anger caused by another's repeated disagreeable acts listening to all that chat show blather gives me the pip

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pips

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verb

present tense third-person singular of pip

as in chirps

to make a short sharp sound like a small bird baby birds pipping loudly in their nest

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Recent Examples of pips

Noun

Pips-in rubber, or inverted rubber, is smooth on the outer surface, and the pips instead touch the inside of the foam. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 My mother spitting cherry pips with me and my sister. — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026 First, the Blue = group requires 5 pips of the same number, and the only number that fits that bill is 2. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

Verb

Very few top teams play with two up front, but one side at least pips them — with reigning champions Argentina usually deploying Lionel Messi and Julian Alvarez as a duo. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 15 June 2026 This is basically the company’s quick battery swapping system, which pips the Stark Varg EX’s plug-only capability. — New Atlas, 21 May 2026

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Noun

Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots go a step further to perform day-to-day tasks on a person’s behalf.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
Before clicking, check the advertiser by selecting the three dots next to a Google search ad.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of dots

Noun

Before that, everyone was taking pep pills or methadone or black beauties, speed.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026
These regions are already incredibly cinematic, but finding undiscovered beauties to shoot in this land was a true moment of pride and triumph.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of beauties

Noun

The rhetoric from Rogers and other Republicans about El-Sayed has added to those frustrations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
In July, antigovernment protests forced the resignation of the education minister over frustrations with the examination system.

— Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of frustrations

Noun

The oversized jacket featured a furry white base adorned with flecks of silver, which beautifully mirrored the sumptuous coats on the runway.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 25 Sep. 2026
Add the torn basil and process just until incorporated -- there will be flecks of green in the mixture.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of flecks

Noun

In a matter of weeks, when the midterm results are tallied and the next campaign begins, Democrats with presidential dreams know the question will be coming.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
In his dreams, Jose Fiscal Belli is still living an all-American life with his all-American family.

— Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of dreams

Noun

Aside from support and alignment issues, dirty pillows can also cause the same kind of skin irritations that arise from pillowcases that have not been washed.

— Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
The recall affects 15mL bottles of Clear Eyes' Maximum Itchy Eye Relief, which mitigates itchiness, redness and other eye irritations, according to the product description.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of irritations

Noun

The source was generally in good condition, but mold spots and dense clusters of small white specks required careful treatment.

— Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Breakouts can look like milder, painless white bumps or dark specks known as whiteheads and blackheads, or more painful red bumps and deeper cysts — a mark of cystic acne.

— Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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