Synonyms for dun

Synonyms for (noun) dun

Synonyms: dun

Definition: horse of a dull brownish grey color

Similar words: mount, riding horse, saddle horse

Definition: a lightweight horse kept for riding only


Synonyms: fawn, grayish brown, greyish brown, dun

Definition: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

Usage: she wore dun

Similar words: light brown

Definition: a brown that is light but unsaturated


Synonyms for (verb) dun

Synonyms: dun

Definition: make a dun color

Similar words: darken

Definition: make dark or darker

Usage: darken a room


Synonyms: dun

Definition: cure by salting

Usage: dun codfish

Similar words: cure

Definition: prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve

Usage: cure meats; cure pickles; cure hay


Synonyms: dun

Definition: persistently ask for overdue payment

Usage: The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone

Similar words: demand

Definition: request urgently and forcefully

Usage: The victim's family is demanding compensation; The boss demanded that he be fired immediately; She demanded to see the manager


Synonyms: rag, frustrate, crucify, dun, torment, bedevil

Definition: treat cruelly

Usage: The children tormented the stuttering teacher

Similar words: plague, provoke, molest, harass, harry, hassle, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, beset

Definition: annoy continually or chronically

Usage: He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked; This man harasses his female co-workers


Synonyms for (adj) dun

Synonyms: dun

Definition: of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color

Usage: the dun and dreary prairie

Similar words: chromatic

Definition: being or having or characterized by hue


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