petnoun [ C ]
uk/pet/us/pet/pet noun [ C ] (ANIMAL)
A1 an animal that is kept in the home as a companion and treated kindly:
More examples
- Doctors have discovered that keeping a pet can do wonders for your health.
- my pet dog
- Some people are really soppy about their pets.
- There was a fashion for keeping reptiles as pets.
- Old people often rely on pets for comfort and companionship in their twilight years.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
General & informal words for animals
- arthropod
- beast
- beastie
- brute
- bug
- creepy-crawly
- critter
- domestic animal
- invertebrate
- man-eater
- pest
- predator
- prey
- stray
- thing
- vermin
- vertebrata
pet noun [ C ] (PERSON)
to be the person that someone in authority likes best and treats better than anyone else:
informal approving a kind person who is easy to like:
UK informal a friendly way of talking to someone, especially a woman or a child:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
- ableism
- arbitrary
- be a bit much idiom
- bias
- biased
- favouritism
- ghettoize
- hate crime
- inequitable
- inequity
- prejudiced
- prejudicial
- sexism
- sexist
- shortchange
- uneven
- unfair
- unjust
- unprovoked
- unsportsmanlike
See more results »
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
petverb
uk/pet/us/pet/-tt-[ T ] If you pet an animal, child, etc., you touch it, him, or her gently and kindly with your hands:
[ I ] informal If two people are petting, they are kissing and touching each other in a sexual way.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Touching & feeling
- brush
- feel
- feel your way idiom
- fiddle
- fiddle (around) with sth
- finger
- hand
- hand to hand idiom
- haptic
- kinaesthesia
- lick
- nudge
- pat
- paw
- play
- play with sth
- tactile
- tap
- toy
- toy with sth
See more results »
petadjective
uk/pet/us/pet/a theory, subject, hate, etc. that is special and important to you:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Particular and individual
- be the very thing idiom
- certain
- esp
- especially
- head
- individual
- individualism
- individualist
- one-trick pony
- particular
- particularity
- peculiar
- peculiarity
- peculiarly
- personal
- personally
- specific
- specifically
- the UN
- to wit idiom
See more results »
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: