Clues for the word "CONCRETE"
We've had 32 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 37 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on November 28, 2025.
Definition of concrete
- a. - United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
- a. - Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract.
- a. - Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.
- n. - A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.
- n. - A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.
- n. - A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
- n. - Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
- v. i. - To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
- v. t. - To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.
- v. t. - To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.
Referring Clues
- Basement floor material
- Not metaphysical
- Tangible
- Not imaginary
- Solid, in a sense
- Real
- Sidewalk material
- Building material
- Fallout shelter material
- Building materials
- Tangible building material
- Building material for start of construction on Greek island
- Not abstract
- Building material - tangible
- Not abstract - construction material
- Island psychiatrist gets student in shape for urban nightmare
- Specific
- Setter from Tory Island
- It's hard for prisoner on island
- Not abstract or imaginary
- Building material originally cast on Greek island
- Specific Cape on Mediterranean island
- Real centre of democracy on Greek island
- Firm
- Solid
- Pantheon material
- Such evidence as it is that there's building going on?
- Foundation material
- Sidewalk-paving material
- Sidewalk substance
- Second-most-used substance in the world, after water
- Grounded in reality
Last Seen In
- LA Times - November 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 11, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 02, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 30, 2024
- New York Times - April 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 28, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - May 11, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - November 02, 2022
- Mirror Daily - June 25, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - January 05, 2018
- Evening Standard Easy - November 08, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - November 02, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - May 11, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 03, 2016
- Guardian Quick - April 11, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 18, 2015
- Guardian Quick - July 28, 2014
- Guardian Everyman - March 30, 2014
- Guardian Quiptic - May 13, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - March 20, 2013
- Guardian Speedy - December 06, 2009
- Guardian Quick - October 29, 2009
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 25, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - July 23, 2008
- And in 7 more crossword puzzles...