dry mouth

Questions about dry mouth

What is another word for dry mouth?

It depends which dry mouth you mean. In the sense “abnormal dryness of the mouth resulting from decreased secretion of saliva”, the synonyms are xerostomia. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 dry mouth?

WordNet records no antonym for dry mouth. 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 dry mouth 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 dry mouth

• Full entry for dry mouthAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for dry mouthWhether 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.