cognate word

Questions about cognate word

What is another word for cognate word?

It depends which cognate word you mean. In the sense “a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language”, the synonyms are cognate. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 cognate word?

WordNet records no antonym for cognate word. 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 cognate word 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 cognate word

• Full entry for cognate wordAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cognate wordWhether 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.