clocks

Questions about clocks

What is another word for clocks?

It depends which clocks you mean. In the sense “European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage”, the synonyms are redstem storksbill, alfilaria, alfileria, filaree, filaria, pin grass, pin clover, Erodium cicutarium. Across all 1 sense there are 8 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 clocks?

WordNet records no antonym for clocks. 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 clocks 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 clocks

• Full entry for clocksAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for clocksWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.