fish ball

Questions about fish ball

What is another word for fish ball?

It depends which fish ball you mean. In the sense “well-seasoned balls of ground fish and eggs and crushed crumbs simmered in fish stock”, the synonyms are gefilte fish. Across all 2 senses 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 fish ball?

WordNet records no antonym for fish ball. 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.

Why are the synonyms for fish ball split into groups?

Because fish ball carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for fish ball 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 fish ball

• Full entry for fish ballAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for fish ballWhether 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.