ballpoint pen

Questions about ballpoint pen

What is another word for ballpoint pen?

It depends which ballpoint pen you mean. In the sense “a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper”, the synonyms are ballpoint, ballpen, Biro. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 ballpoint pen?

WordNet records no antonym for ballpoint pen. 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 ballpoint pen 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 ballpoint pen

• Full entry for ballpoint penAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ballpoint penWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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