cream of tartar

Questions about cream of tartar

What is another word for cream of tartar?

It depends which cream of tartar you mean. In the sense “a salt used especially in baking powder”, the synonyms are tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate. 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 cream of tartar?

WordNet records no antonym for cream of tartar. 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 cream of tartar 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 cream of tartar

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