Thesaurus:wow

Thesaurus:wow

THESAURUS

wow

English

Synonyms

• adzooks (archaic)

• ay, caramba

• ay, chihuahua

• amazing

• begorra (dated, Ireland)

• bless my heart

• bless us

• blige (UK)

• blimey

• blipity blam

• bloody hell

• blow me (dated, UK)

• blow me backwards (dated, UK)

• blow me down

• blow me over (dated, UK)

• blow me pink (dated, UK)

• blow me tight (dated, UK)

• blow my buttons (dated, UK)

• butter my butt and call me a biscuit

• by all that is holy

• by Allah (Islam)

• by cracky

• by George

• by God

• by golly

• by gum

• by gummy

• by jingo

• by Jove

• by Jupiter

• byrlady (obsolete)

• caramba

• Christ

• Christ alive

• Christ on a bike

• Christ on a cracker

• cor (UK)

• cor blimey (UK)

• cor lummy (UK)

• cowabunga (jocular, orig. US)

• crikey (UK, Australia, NZ)

• criminy

• cripes

• crivvens (UK)

• chuffing hell (UK)

• dear God

• dear me

• dearie me

• deary me

• dear Lord

• diggety

• eep

• egad

• egads

• ermahgerd

• fancy that

• fuck me

• fucking hell

• gad so

• gadsbud (archaic)

• gadzooks (archaic)

• gaw

• gee (US, dated)

• gee whiz (US, dated)

• gee willikers (US, dated)

• geeminy

• geez

• geez Louise (US)

• get out of town

• God Almighty

• God in heaven

• good golly

• golly

• golly gee willikers

• golly gosh

• good God

• good golly

• good gracious

• good gravy

• good grief

• good heavens

• good Lord

• goodness gracious

• goodness gracious me

• goodness me

• googly-moogly

• gorblimey

• Gordon Bennett (UK)

• gosh

• gracious

• gramercy

• great balls of fire

• great Caesar

• great Caesar's ghost

• great googly moogly

• great Scott

• hallo

• hello    [WS]

• heavens

• heavens above

• heavens to Betsy

• heavens to Murgatroyd

• hell's bells

• hey    [WS]

• heyday (obsolete)

• holy cow

• holy crap

• holy crap on a cracker

• holy cricket

• holy crickets

• holy dignity

• holy fuck

• holy fuck knuckles

• holy guacamole

• holy Hannah

• holy hell

• holy kamoley

• holy kamoly

• holy macaroni

• holy mackerel

• holy magnum

• holy moley

• holy moly

• holy man

• holy Moses

• Holy Mother of God

• holy shit

• holy smoke

• holy Toledo

• hooly dooly‎

• hot damn

• I'll be

• I'll be a dirty bird!

• I'll be a monkey's uncle (or call me a monkey's uncle)

• I'll be a son of a bitch

• I'll be a son of a gun

• I'll be blowed

• I'll be bound

• I'll be buggered

• I'll be damned

• I'll be danged

• I'll be darned

• I'll be dashed

• I'll be dipped in shit

• I'll be hanged

• I'll be jiggered

• I'll be shot

• I'm blowed (dated, UK)

• I say

• Jaysus

• Jeebus

• jeepers

• jeepers creepers

• jeez

• jeez Louise

• Jesum Crow

• Jesus

• Jesus Christ

• Jesus fucking Christ

• Jesus H. Christ

• Jiminy Cricket

• jinkies

• Judas Priest

• jumping Jehoshaphat

• jumping Jesus

• knock me over with a feather

• land sakes

• lauks

• lawks

• lawks a-mercy

• lawl

• leapin' lizards

• Lord

• Lord be praised

• Lord love a duck

• lordy

• mama mia

• mamma mia

• man alive

• my conscience (obsolete)

• my giddy aunt

• my God

• my goodness

• my gosh

• my Lord

• my word

• O gemini

• ods bodikin (archaic)

• odzookens (archaic)

• oh

• oh em gee

• ohmigod

• oh my

• oh my days

• oh my God

• oh my Goddess

• oh my goodness

• oh my goodness gracious

• oh my gosh

• oh my hell

• oh my heck

• oh my life

• oh my Lord

• oh my stars

• oh my word

• oi

• OMG (internet slang)

• omigod

• omigosh

• peas and rice

• praise the Lord

• sacré bleu

• sakes alive

• 'sblood (archaic)

• 'sdeath (archaic)

• shart (obsolete)

• 'sheart (obsolete)

• shiver my timbers

• shut the front door

• snakes alive

• sodding hell

• son of a gun

• stone me

• stone the crows (rare)

• strewth

• strike me pink

• 'struth (archaic)

• suffering Sappho

• suffering succotash

• sweet Grandma on stilts

• sweet Jesus

• sweet mother of God

• sweet mother of Jesus

• well

• well, I never

• well, well (often sarcastic)

• well, well, well (often sarcastic)

• what

• what do you know (often sarcastic)

• whoa

• whoah

• wow

• wowee

• wowzers

• ye gods

• yikes

• yikes bikes

• you don't say (often sarcastic)

• yowzah

• zoiks

• zoinks

• ZOMG (internet slang)

• ZOMFG (internet slang)

• zooterkins (archaic)

• zound (archaic)

• zounds (archaic)

• zowie

Hyponyms

• yay    [WS] (exuberantly approving; see for further synonyms)

• yes    [WS] (approving; see for further synonyms)

• no    [WS] (disapproving; see for further synonyms)

Antonyms

• screw this    [WS]

Further reading

• “870. wonder” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “wow” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.