aigrette

Questions about aigrette

What is another word for aigrette?

It depends which aigrette you mean. In the sense “a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume”, the synonyms are aigret. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 aigrette?

WordNet records no antonym for aigrette. 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 aigrette 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 aigrette

• Full entry for aigretteAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for aigretteWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.