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balloon has 2 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for balloon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
ride in a hot-air balloon
“He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China”