function word

Questions about function word

What is another word for function word?

It depends which function word you mean. In the sense “a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning”, the synonyms are closed-class word. 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 function word?

WordNet records no antonym for function word. 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 function word 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 function word

• Full entry for function wordAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for function wordWhether 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.