double bass

Questions about double bass

What is another word for double bass?

It depends which double bass you mean. In the sense “largest and lowest member of the violin family”, the synonyms are bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, contrabass, string bass. Across all 1 sense there are 5 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 double bass?

WordNet records no antonym for double bass. 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 double bass 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 double bass

• Full entry for double bassAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for double bassWhether 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.