get the best

Questions about get the best

What is another word for get the best?

It depends which get the best you mean. In the sense “overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome”, the synonyms are have the best, overcome. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 the best?

WordNet records no antonym for get the best. 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 the best 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 the best

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