glove puppet

Questions about glove puppet

What is another word for glove puppet?

It depends which glove puppet you mean. In the sense “a puppet with a cloth body and hollow head; fits over the hand”, the synonyms are hand puppet, glove doll. 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 glove puppet?

WordNet records no antonym for glove puppet. 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 glove puppet 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 glove puppet

• Full entry for glove puppetAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for glove puppetWhether 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.