breakbone fever

Questions about breakbone fever

What is another word for breakbone fever?

It depends which breakbone fever you mean. In the sense “an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints”, the synonyms are dengue, dengue fever, dandy fever. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 breakbone fever?

WordNet records no antonym for breakbone fever. 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 breakbone fever 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 breakbone fever

• Full entry for breakbone feverAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for breakbone feverWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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