Synonyms for Was:

v.
• existed
- Endured
- Existed
- Lasted
- Lived
- Occurred
- Prevailed
- Subsisted
- abided
- continued
- had been
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Independent
- Proper noun, singular
  age, associated, board, cannes, complainant, de, done, era, fall, first, george, go, kind, marks, now, oh, ontario, place, pretty, said, subcommittee, taking, thought, too, well, work, yeah, yes, Everything, Got, Hey, Himself, Kan, Met, Dr., takes, applies, appears, makes, provides, becomes, looks, feels, IBA, SBI, IBAS, SBSTA, TSES, god, y, a., 's, 're, -we, nationsa.
- Noun, plural
  marks, nuts, surroundings, terms, things, words, works, aims, events, guys, comments, 's, ITWAS.
- Noun, singular or mass
  bout, jar, necklace, parameter, point, pretty, relation, same, shelter, something, thing, Anything, Everything, L.
- Adverb
  better.
- Interjection
  oh, yeah, yes, represents.
- Verb, past tense
  accepted, accompanied, accused, acknowledged, acquired, action, added, addressed, admitted, adopted, adored, advised, affected, age, agenda, agreed, amended, amendment, annex, announced, annual, anticipated, applied, appointed, approved, article, assembly, assessment, assistance, assumed, attached, attempted, attended, based, become, ben, bin, bore, boss, broke, built, called, case, centre, chair, chairperson, changed, characterized, code, collected, completed, concentration, concerned, concerning, concluded, conference, confirmed, consensus, considered, constituted, contained, continued, cooperation, correspond, cost, covered, creation, currently, date, dated, de, debate, decided, decision, declaration, declared, decreased, delegation, demonstrated, described, deserved, designated, designed, destroyed, detected, directed, directive, discovered, dismissed, division, document, don, drew, dropped, earned, effect, elected, emphasized, ended, engaged, enough, es, escaped, established, estimated, example, exhibit, expanded, expected, experienced, expired, exposed, extended, faced, facilitated, failed, featured, fell, felt, figured, fired, focused, focussed, follow, following, forced, formed, found, founded, fund, girl, go, government, granted, headed, heard, held, history, huge, identified, ii, iii, implied, imposed, improved, included, informed, inhibited, initiated, initiative, injured, intended, invented, invited, involved, item, joined, judges, justice, kept, kg, kidnapped, lay, learned, led, left, lent, liked, limited, link, listed, lost, loved, maintained, marked, matched, maximum, maybe, measured, meeting, member, message, mission, model, morning, moved, name, named, namely, needed, note, noted, nothing, noticed, objective, observed, occupied, office, oh, okay, only, opened, opposed, option, ordered, organized, outlined, owed, owned, paid, parliament, permitted, pilot, placed, planned, played, pointed, population, posed, positive, posted, prepared, presence, presented, prevalence, principle, prior, procedure, produced, professor, programme, progress, project, promised, proposed, proved, provincial, published, pulled, question, raised, ranked, read, ready, reason, received, recognized, recommended, recorded, reduced, reflected, regarding, registered, rejected, related, relationship, released, report, reported, representative, represented, requested, required, reside, resistance, resolution, response, rested, revealed, revised, right, road, rose, ruled, sa, said, sat, satisfied, secretariat, section, secured, see, selected, sent, shared, shot, signed, sold, soldier, solidarity, son, sought, sounded, special, species, spent, spoke, stand, stated, stopped, stressed, study, subject, success, suggested, supported, surrendered, suspected, suspended, sustained, table, team, text, therefore, third, thought, threatened, tom, totaled, translation, travelled, treated, tried, understood, unit, violated, voiced, wanted, washed, welcomed, well, why, won, workshop, yes, Accounted, Aimed, Allowed, Amounted, Answered, Anything, Appeared, Approached, Argued, Arose, Arrived, Asked, Assessed, Attracted, Averaged, Awarded, Became, Began, Believed, Belonged, Benefited, Bought, Brought, C, Cared, Carried, Caught, Caused, Ceased, Chose, Claimed, D, Dealt, Declined, Deemed, Delivered, Depended, Detained, Died, Differed, Disappeared, Discussed, Emerged, Enabled, Encountered, Enjoyed, Entered, Envisaged, Equalled, Exceeded, Exercised, Exhibited, Existed, Explained, Exported, Feared, Fought, Filed, Fled, Flew, Followed, Gave, Went, Got, Grew, Happened, Helped, Him, Hoped, Indicated, Insisted, Intervened, Introduced, Issued, Killed, Knew, L, Lacked, Lagged, Lasted, Launched, Listened, Lived, Looked, M, Managed, Meant, Met, Mentioned, N, Numbered, Obtained, Occurred, Offered, Operated, Participated, Passed, Pertained, Picked, Pleaded, Quoted, Ran, Ranged, Reached, Referred, Refused, Regarded, Reigned, Relied, Remained, Rendered, Replied, Responded, Resulted, Resumed, Returned, Rode, S, Sank, Scored, Seemed, Served, Smelled, Took, Talked, Targeted, Tasted, Tended, Threw, Towards, Trafficking, Transferred, Underwent, Undertook, Visited, Voted, Waged, Walked, Wore, Weighed, Wished, Wrote, Totalled, no., 144, 32, Commenced, Compared, Consisted, Conspired, Contributed, Convened, Corresponded, Counted, Countries, Crashed, Created, Prevailed, Prevented, Pushed, Stood, started, Sucked, Suffered, Summoned, Abu, Rights, meetings, underlined, states, returns, responses, makes, rules, showed, ensured, results, strategies, calls, members, weapons, reproduced, questions, hosted, recalled, VOL, 2000, EUR, HIT, OJ, GONNA, GOTTA, highlighted, participants, laid, mr, ter, 1994, 1996, 1999, 1997, 1998, 2007, 1962, 1973, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2001, m., 2005-2006, 2006-2007, -pipe-.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  document, VVAS, 's, ITWAS.
- Verb, base form
  appear, arise, become, belong, constitute, exactly, found, go, held, lied, look, oh, pretty, prove, seem, Ah, Gave, Got, Thru, WASN, a., wasthe.

What are the hypernyms for Was?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
being, condition, existence, fact, happening, occurrence, phenomenon, possibility, reality, state.

Usage examples for Was

The explanation Was simple.

"Leo the Circus Boy"

Ralph Bonehill

John Was that man.

"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"

Marcus Dods

Hew Was always kind.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Famous quotes with Was

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it Was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

Peter Lewis Allen
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Richard Bach
Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

John Belushi
I Was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.

Chester Brown
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

John Clayton

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