holibut

Questions about holibut

What is another word for holibut?

It depends which holibut you mean. In the sense “marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes”, the synonyms are halibut. 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 holibut?

WordNet records no antonym for holibut. 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 holibut 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 holibut

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