dirge

Questions about dirge

What is another word for dirge?

It depends which dirge you mean. In the sense “a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person”, the synonyms are coronach, lament, requiem, threnody. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 dirge?

WordNet records no antonym for dirge. 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 dirge 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 dirge

• Full entry for dirgeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for dirgeWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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