goodbye

Questions about goodbye

What is another word for goodbye?

It depends which goodbye you mean. In the sense “a farewell remark”, the synonyms are adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, good day, sayonara, so long. Across all 1 sense there are 14 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 goodbye?

WordNet records no antonym for goodbye. 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 goodbye 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 goodbye

• Full entry for goodbyeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for goodbyeWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.