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/ˈpʌpɪt/ · noun
Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove..
These men , from no worse motive that could be discovered than a thirst after knowledge beyond their sphere , committed burglary upon the barn in which the puppets had been consigned to repose
Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity. Man was thus virtually a symbolic puppet in the hands of the Roman pantheon.
Use puppet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Puppet means Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove..
Common synonyms include monkey, creature, sport, tool.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
These men , from no worse motive that could be discovered than a thirst after knowledge beyond their sphere , committed burglary upon the barn in which the puppets had been consigned to repose
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