change-of-pace ball

Questions about change-of-pace ball

What is another word for change-of-pace ball?

It depends which change-of-pace ball you mean. In the sense “a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball”, the synonyms are change-up, change-of-pace, off-speed pitch. 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 change-of-pace ball?

WordNet records no antonym for change-of-pace ball. 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 change-of-pace ball 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 change-of-pace ball

• Full entry for change-of-pace ballAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for change-of-pace ballWhether 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.