electric chair

Questions about electric chair

What is another word for electric chair?

It depends which electric chair you mean. In the sense “an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person”, the synonyms are chair, death chair, hot seat. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 electric chair?

WordNet records no antonym for electric chair. 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 electric chair 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 electric chair

• Full entry for electric chairAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for electric chairWhether 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.