bunco

Questions about bunco

What is another word for bunco?

It depends which bunco you mean. In the sense “a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property”, the synonyms are bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam. Across all 2 senses there are 21 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 bunco?

WordNet records no antonym for bunco. 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.

Why are the synonyms for bunco split into groups?

Because bunco carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for bunco 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 bunco

• Full entry for buncoAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for buncoWhether 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.