gray matter

Questions about gray matter

What is another word for gray matter?

It depends which gray matter you mean. In the sense “greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons”, the synonyms are grey matter, grey substance, gray substance, substantia grisea. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 gray matter?

WordNet records no antonym for gray matter. 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 gray matter 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 gray matter

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