half-staff

Questions about half-staff

What is another word for half-staff?

It depends which half-staff you mean. In the sense “a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress”, the synonyms are half-mast. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 half-staff?

WordNet records no antonym for half-staff. 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 half-staff 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 half-staff

• Full entry for half-staffAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for half-staffWhether 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.