curry favor

Questions about curry favor

What is another word for curry favor?

It depends which curry favor you mean. In the sense “seek favor by fawning or flattery”, the synonyms are curry favour, court favor, court favour. 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 curry favor?

WordNet records no antonym for curry favor. 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 curry favor 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 curry favor

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