get onto

Questions about get onto

What is another word for get onto?

It depends which get onto you mean. In the sense “understand, usually after some initial difficulty”, the synonyms are catch on, get wise, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it. Across all 1 sense there are 7 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 get onto?

WordNet records no antonym for get onto. 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 get onto 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 get onto

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