Synonyms for cocktail
ˈkɒkˌteɪlcock·tail

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1. cocktailnoun

   Synonyms:
   mixed drink

2. cocktailnoun

   festive, lively

   now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Synonyms:
   mixed drink

3. cocktailnoun

   A mixture of other substances.

   Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream of the chemical factory.

   Synonyms:
   mixed drink

Princeton's WordNet

1. cocktailnoun

   a short mixed drink

2. cocktailnoun

   an appetizer served as a first course at a meal

Matched Categories

1. • Appetizer
   • Mixed Drink

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1. List of paraphrases for "cocktail":

   mix, drink, mixture

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1. Ed Miliband:

   One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

2. Jeffrey Schultz:

   The dichotomy between the monetary policy stances in the U.S. and UK and those in Europe and Japan, coupled with falling commodity prices and a weaker Chinese growth and activity outlook, makes for a rather lethal cocktail for emerging-market currency risk.

3. Rod Steiger:

   In 'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties.

4. Maya Rudolph:

   He sent me a GIF of Maya Rudolph, as Kamala Harris, in sunglasses, sipping a cocktail and saying,' Oh no.' That really made me laugh.

5. Jeffrey Swanson:

   What made Dylann Roof do what he did? You know, I mean, that's the question, isn't it? I don't know, there are pieces of the puzzle, and you put them all on the jigsaw board, and you're still going to have a big hole there. What I do know is that violent behavior -- whether it's serious violence or minor violence in populations -- is never just one thing. It's not a one thing problem. It's going to be an accumulation of things, kind of a whole cocktail of factors.