cornsilk

Questions about cornsilk

What is another word for cornsilk?

It depends which cornsilk you mean. In the sense “each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn”, the synonyms are corn silk. 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 cornsilk?

WordNet records no antonym for cornsilk. 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 cornsilk 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 cornsilk

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