gibe

1. 1.

   an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

   “his parting shot was `drop dead'”

   “she threw shafts of sarcasm”

   “she takes a dig at me every chance she gets”

   Synonymsshotshaftslamdigbarbjibe

   Broaderremark

   Narrowercheap shot

Other forms of gibe

plural

gibes·

past tense

gibed·

present participle

gibing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gibe

What does gibe mean?

gibe means "be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gibe?

gibe has 1 syllable: gibe. In IPA it is /ˈdʒaɪb/.

What is another word for gibe?

Close synonyms include match, fit, correspond, check, jibe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gibe a common word?

gibe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gibe?

1 word rhymes with gibe. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.