PALS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

pals

noun

plural of pal

as in friends

a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another I always choose my best pal for my softball team first

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Recent Examples of pals In Dylan Meyer’s stoner comedy The Wrong Girls, Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat play co-dependent pals made telepathic by an experimental new drug. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2026 The latter come courtesy of Gravy, a puppet Dirnt used back in the day to entertain his pals on the road that inspired a cinematic counterpart. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026 The duo — pals from boarding school and later Harvard — wanted to write a movie about Bourdain, but didn’t want a cradle to grave story. — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026 The star partied with his model girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti and a posse of ten pals at hot spots including Casa Jondal. — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026 Longtime pals Nina Dobrev and Aaron Paul had to share a kiss in the film The Get Out (2026). — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026 Capitalizing on the daily news stories of Gemini missions and Apollo moon-walking dreams, this spacefaring fellow and his astronaut pals let kids everywhere imagine colorful cosmic adventures. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2026 So, dust off the Chucks, call up your two best (or tallest) pals, and get ready to ball with the top 3-on-3 squads in the area. — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 31 July 2026 Paul released a treasure trove of private diary entries and emails from Fauci to celebrity pals, friends, allied media figures, or his peers in epidemiology. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pals

Noun

Roman said the question will be if the defense focuses on their own psychiatric experts right away, or Clancy's friends and family to humanize her to the jurors.

— Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
More than two dozen friends and family traveled from Ohio and waved a Marietta College flag for each of his plate appearances.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of friends

Noun

But with that connection to Jack, initially forged as foster siblings but later as opioid buddies, comes risk.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Foo Fighters are set to play inside the stadium in five hours, and Bob is with his son, 31-year-old Albert, and a gaggle of his buddies.

— William Earl, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026