bicuspid

Questions about bicuspid

What is another word for bicuspid?

It depends which bicuspid you mean. In the sense “a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars”, the synonyms are premolar. Across all 2 senses 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 bicuspid?

WordNet records no antonym for bicuspid. 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.

Why are the synonyms for bicuspid split into groups?

Because bicuspid carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for bicuspid 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 bicuspid

• Full entry for bicuspidAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bicuspidWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.