eye socket

Questions about eye socket

What is another word for eye socket?

It depends which eye socket you mean. In the sense “the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball”, the synonyms are orbit, cranial orbit, orbital cavity. 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 eye socket?

WordNet records no antonym for eye socket. 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 eye socket 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 eye socket

• Full entry for eye socketAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for eye socketWhether 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.