ephemeron

Questions about ephemeron

What is another word for ephemeron?

It depends which ephemeron you mean. In the sense “anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form”, the synonyms are ephemeral. 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 ephemeron?

WordNet records no antonym for ephemeron. 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 ephemeron 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 ephemeron

• Full entry for ephemeronAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ephemeronWhether 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.