cast aside

Questions about cast aside

What is another word for cast aside?

It depends which cast aside you mean. In the sense “throw or cast away”, the synonyms are discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away. Across all 1 sense there are 12 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 cast aside?

WordNet records no antonym for cast aside. 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 cast aside 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 cast aside

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