impacted tooth

Questions about impacted tooth

What is another word for impacted tooth?

It depends which impacted tooth you mean. In the sense “a disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally”, the synonyms are impaction. 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 impacted tooth?

WordNet records no antonym for impacted tooth. 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 impacted tooth 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 impacted tooth

• Full entry for impacted toothAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for impacted toothWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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