honey badger

Questions about honey badger

What is another word for honey badger?

It depends which honey badger you mean. In the sense “nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia”, the synonyms are ratel, Mellivora capensis. 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 honey badger?

WordNet records no antonym for honey badger. 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 honey badger 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 honey badger

• Full entry for honey badgerAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for honey badgerWhether 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.