earth wax

Questions about earth wax

What is another word for earth wax?

It depends which earth wax you mean. In the sense “a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles”, the synonyms are ader wax, mineral wax, ozokerite, ozocerite. 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 earth wax?

WordNet records no antonym for earth wax. 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 earth wax 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 earth wax

• Full entry for earth waxAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for earth waxWhether 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.