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hole has 14 distinct synonyms spread across 5 of its 10 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.
an opening into or through something
an opening deliberately made in or through something
one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
“he played 18 holes”
a fault
“he shot holes in my argument”
informal terms for a difficult situation
“he got into a terrible fix”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for hole come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.