handbasket

Questions about handbasket

What is another word for handbasket?

It depends which handbasket you mean. In the sense “a container that is usually woven and has handles”, the synonyms are basket. 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 handbasket?

WordNet records no antonym for handbasket. 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 handbasket 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 handbasket

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