food additive

Questions about food additive

What is another word for food additive?

It depends which food additive you mean. In the sense “an additive to food intended to improve its flavor or appearance or shelf-life”, the synonyms are artificial additive. 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 food additive?

WordNet records no antonym for food additive. 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 food additive 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 food additive

• Full entry for food additiveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for food additiveWhether 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.