cast away

Questions about cast away

What is another word for cast away?

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

WordNet records no antonym for cast away. 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 away 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 away

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