beggar-my-neighbor

Questions about beggar-my-neighbor

What is another word for beggar-my-neighbor?

It depends which beggar-my-neighbor you mean. In the sense “a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards”, the synonyms are beggar-my-neighbour, strip-Jack-naked. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 beggar-my-neighbor?

WordNet records no antonym for beggar-my-neighbor. 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 beggar-my-neighbor 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 beggar-my-neighbor

• Full entry for beggar-my-neighborAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for beggar-my-neighborWhether 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.