black-and-blue

Questions about black-and-blue

What is another word for black-and-blue?

It depends which black-and-blue you mean. In the sense “discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin”, the synonyms are livid. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 black-and-blue?

WordNet records no antonym for black-and-blue. 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 black-and-blue 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 black-and-blue

• Full entry for black-and-blueAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for black-and-blueWhether 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.