hook shot

Questions about hook shot

What is another word for hook shot?

It depends which hook shot you mean. In the sense “a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket”, the synonyms are hook. 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 hook shot?

WordNet records no antonym for hook shot. 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 hook shot 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 hook shot

• Full entry for hook shotAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hook shotWhether 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.