Synonyms of sprat

sprat

noun

ˈsprat 

as in kid

a young person who is between infancy and adulthood

planning to spend their vacation at a couples-only resort where they would not be bothered by snotty-nosed sprats

Synonyms & Similar Words

• kid
• child
• juvenile
• cub
• chick
• bud
• youngster
• kiddy
• teenager
• youth
• moppet
• whelp
• baby
• monkey
• bairn
• kiddie
• kiddo
• squirt
• adolescent
• chap
• youngling
• sprout
• teen
• bambino
• infant
• urchin
• toddler
• tike
• neonate
• tyke
• minor
• bantling
• schoolboy
• lad
• tot
• weanling
• rascal
• newborn
• schoolchild
• schoolkid
• nestling
• jackanapes
• preschooler
• whippersnapper
• rug rat
• cherub
• stripling
• imp
• kindergartener
• nipper
• schoolgirl
• teener
• devil
• babe
• kindergartner
• hellion
• preteen
• mischief
• tween
• rapscallion
• rogue
• teenybopper
• shaver
• subteen
• tad
• hoyden
• tomboy
• preteen-ager
• bobby-soxer

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• adult
• grown-up
• senior citizen
• oldster
• elder
• middle-ager
• old-timer
• ancient
• senior
• golden-ager

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sprat

The area also acts as a nursery for fish like lemon sole, plaice, and European sprat. —Lauren Lowman, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2025

Local delicacies include rye bread, sprat sandwiches, the Estonian pastry Pirukad, Mulgipuder which is a porridge of mashed potatoes and barley and Kohuke, a sweet cheese curd and chocolate snack. —Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024

Her family’s Christmas lunch includes two versions of Jansson’s temptation (one with sprats, one without) and, of course, schnapps and singing. —Eric Kim, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023

The fish’s brine perfumes the cream with warm spices, such as nutmeg and cinnamon, and the sprats themselves melt into oblivion after a long bake. —Eric Kim, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023

The store’s shelves are stocked with sausages, many-layered honey cake, tinned sprats from Latvia, and other Eastern European goods. —Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023

Baltic Sea sprat smoked with heather and chamomile, say — to stretch your taste beyond its comfort zone and perhaps prime your next order. —New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021

If left to swim downstream by themselves, some of the sprats would get lost and overheated in the stagnant reservoirs behind each dam; despite screens, others would be ground up in the turbines. —Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019

In the Baltic Sea, juvenile herring and sprat – another small herring-like fish – have more food available to them in warm years than in cool years, and have also benefited from warming. —Chris Free, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2019