birth defect

Questions about birth defect

What is another word for birth defect?

It depends which birth defect you mean. In the sense “a defect that is present at birth”, the synonyms are congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital disorder, congenital abnormality. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 birth defect?

WordNet records no antonym for birth defect. 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 birth defect 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 birth defect

• Full entry for birth defectAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for birth defectWhether 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.