drop by the wayside

Questions about drop by the wayside

What is another word for drop by the wayside?

It depends which drop by the wayside you mean. In the sense “give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat”, the synonyms are drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up the sponge. Across all 1 sense there are 7 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 drop by the wayside?

WordNet records no antonym for drop by the wayside. 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 drop by the wayside 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 drop by the wayside

• Full entry for drop by the waysideAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for drop by the waysideWhether 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.