black widow

Questions about black widow

What is another word for black widow?

It depends which black widow you mean. In the sense “venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen”, the synonyms are Latrodectus mactans. 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 widow?

WordNet records no antonym for black widow. 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 widow 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 widow

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