Antonyms for ripple

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : rip-uhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɪp əl

Definition of ripple

Origin : early 15c., "to crease;" 1660s, "to present a ruffled surface," of unknown origin, perhaps a frequentative of rip (v.). Transitive sense "cause to ripple" is from 1786. Related: Rippled; rippling.

noun wave; wrinkle
verb wave

Example sentences :

"I see you have found him," she said, with a ripple of laughter.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

Presently, her happy musing was broken by a ripple from the outer world.
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

But the water, smooth again now, was not stirred by so much as a ripple.
Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman

In a few days 412 after the dead were found in a ripple and buried.
Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers

Scarcely a ripple marked its progress, and the nose of it slid up on the sand.
Extract from : « The Heads of Apex » by Francis Flagg

It lay like a sheet of glass, so that never a ripple disturbed its surface.
Extract from : « The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales » by Arthur Conan Doyle

They are in circumstances in which the ripple passes into the wavelet, and the wavelet into the billow.
Extract from : « Leading Articles on Various Subjects » by Hugh Miller

Miss Colton gave a little scream, which changed to a ripple of laughter.
Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln

A ripple of laughter came to applaud Leduc's excursion into irony.
Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini

There is then no interruption––no ripple upon the flowing river of our lives.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Shining Light » by Norman Duncan

Synonyms for ripple

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