chilli pepper

Questions about chilli pepper

What is another word for chilli pepper?

It depends which chilli pepper you mean. In the sense “plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red”, the synonyms are cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, long pepper, jalapeno, Capsicum annuum longum. Across all 1 sense there are 6 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 chilli pepper?

WordNet records no antonym for chilli pepper. 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 chilli pepper 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 chilli pepper

• Full entry for chilli pepperAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for chilli pepperWhether 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.