adieu

Questions about adieu

What is another word for adieu?

It depends which adieu you mean. In the sense “a farewell remark”, the synonyms are adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long. Across all 1 sense there are 14 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of adieu?

WordNet records no antonym for adieu. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for adieu come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of adieu

• Full entry for adieuAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for adieuWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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