fish-fly

Questions about fish-fly

What is another word for fish-fly?

It depends which fish-fly you mean. In the sense “similar to but smaller than the dobsonfly; larvae are used as fishing bait”, the synonyms are fish fly. 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 fish-fly?

WordNet records no antonym for fish-fly. 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 fish-fly 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-fly

• Full entry for fish-flyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for fish-flyWhether 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.