cresol

Questions about cresol

What is another word for cresol?

It depends which cresol you mean. In the sense “any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant”, the synonyms are methyl phenol. 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 cresol?

WordNet records no antonym for cresol. 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 cresol 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 cresol

• Full entry for cresolAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cresolWhether 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.