kingcup

Questions about kingcup

What is another word for kingcup?

It depends which kingcup you mean. In the sense “swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups”, the synonyms are marsh marigold, meadow bright, May blob, cowslip, water dragon, Caltha palustris. Across all 2 senses there are 11 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 kingcup?

WordNet records no antonym for kingcup. 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.

Why are the synonyms for kingcup split into groups?

Because kingcup carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for kingcup 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 kingcup

• Full entry for kingcupAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for kingcupWhether 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.