dandy fever

Questions about dandy fever

What is another word for dandy fever?

It depends which dandy fever you mean. In the sense “an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints”, the synonyms are dengue, dengue fever, breakbone fever. 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 dandy fever?

WordNet records no antonym for dandy fever. 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 dandy fever 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 dandy fever

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