Groove

Quick meaning: Groove is a noun meaning A fixed routine.

Meaning

A fixed routine.

More Meanings

1. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
2. (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
3. (mining) A shaft or excavation.
4. (motor racing) The optimal route around the track, or any of several such routes.
5. (transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
6. A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tire groove, or a geological channel or depression.
7. (dated, informal) A good feeling (often as in the groove).

Example Sentences

The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.

Let the music play / He won't get away / This groove he can't ignore

Get into the groove / Boy, you've got to prove / Your love to me / Get up on your feet / Yeah, step to the beat

How could he be expected to make music that put the audience in a groove, he reasoned, if he wasn't grooving himself?

Word Forms

• grooves
• grooving
• grooved

Synonyms for groove

Depending on context, synonyms include furrow, rout, rut, gouge.

Antonyms for groove

Common opposites include ridge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gouge, furrow, rout, rut, slot, trench.

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