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synonyms for ball-of-wax

  • broad
  • comprehensive
  • across-the-board
  • all the options
  • all together
  • all-around
  • blanket
  • catchall
  • encyclopedic
  • full
  • general
  • global
  • in toto
  • overall
  • sweeping
  • umbrella
  • wall-to-wall
  • whole
  • without exception
On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ball-of-wax, such as: broad, comprehensive, across-the-board, all-around, all the options, and all together.

antonyms for ball-of-wax

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  • exclusive
  • narrow
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How to use ball-of-wax in a sentence

Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN
Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
A view of the duchess's ball-room, or of the dining-table of the earl, will supersede all occasion for lengthy fiddle-faddle.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLING
On the night of June the 11th a red-hot cannon-ball set fire to one of the barracks which was used as a hospital.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
But Lessard's a overbearin' son-of-a-gun all round, and he's always breakin' out in a new place.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
Tories will wax eloquent on "the pink miasma of revolutionary Radicalism."
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUS
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WORDS RELATED TO BALL-OF-WAX

  • across-the-board
  • all the options
  • all together
  • all-around
  • ball-of-wax
  • blanket
  • broad
  • catchall
  • comprehensive
  • encyclopedic
  • full
  • general
  • global
  • in toto
  • overall
  • sweeping
  • umbrella
  • wall-to-wall
  • whole
  • without exception
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.