knuckle joint

Questions about knuckle joint

What is another word for knuckle joint?

It depends which knuckle joint you mean. In the sense “a joint of a finger when the fist is closed”, the synonyms are knuckle, metacarpophalangeal joint. Across all 2 senses there are 3 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 knuckle joint?

WordNet records no antonym for knuckle joint. 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 knuckle joint split into groups?

Because knuckle joint 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 knuckle joint 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 knuckle joint

• Full entry for knuckle jointAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for knuckle jointWhether 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.