cataplasm

Questions about cataplasm

What is another word for cataplasm?

It depends which cataplasm you mean. In the sense “a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.”, the synonyms are poultice, plaster. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 cataplasm?

WordNet records no antonym for cataplasm. 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 cataplasm 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 cataplasm

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