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hacker has 2 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm
“true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for hacker come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
one who works hard at boring tasks