haltere

Questions about haltere

What is another word for haltere?

It depends which haltere you mean. In the sense “either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight”, the synonyms are halter, balancer. 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 haltere?

WordNet records no antonym for haltere. 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 haltere 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 haltere

• Full entry for haltereAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for haltereWhether 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.