fly in the face of

Questions about fly in the face of

What is another word for fly in the face of?

It depends which fly in the face of you mean. In the sense “go against”, the synonyms are fly in the teeth of. 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 fly in the face of?

WordNet records no antonym for fly in the face of. 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 fly in the face of 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 fly in the face of

• Full entry for fly in the face ofAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for fly in the face ofWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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