electronic mail

Questions about electronic mail

What is another word for electronic mail?

It depends which electronic mail you mean. In the sense “(computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in”, the synonyms are e-mail, email. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 electronic mail?

The recorded antonym is snail mail. Opposites are sense-specific too: this page shows which meaning each one is the opposite of, because a word rarely has a single opposite that holds for all of its senses.

Where do the synonyms for electronic mail 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 electronic mail

• Full entry for electronic mailAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for electronic mailWhether 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.