black tongue

Questions about black tongue

What is another word for black tongue?

It depends which black tongue you mean. In the sense “a benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue”, the synonyms are hairy tongue, furry tongue. 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 black tongue?

WordNet records no antonym for black tongue. 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 tongue 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 tongue

• Full entry for black tongueAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for black tongueWhether 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.