foul shot

Questions about foul shot

What is another word for foul shot?

It depends which foul shot you mean. In the sense “an unhindered basketball shot from the foul line; given to penalize the other team for committing a foul”, the synonyms are free throw, penalty free throw, charity toss, charity throw, charity shot. Across all 1 sense there are 5 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 foul shot?

WordNet records no antonym for foul shot. 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 foul shot 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 foul shot

• Full entry for foul shotAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for foul shotWhether 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.