laughing gas

Questions about laughing gas

What is another word for laughing gas?

It depends which laughing gas you mean. In the sense “inhalation anesthetic used as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery”, the synonyms are nitrous oxide. 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 laughing gas?

WordNet records no antonym for laughing gas. 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 laughing gas 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 laughing gas

• Full entry for laughing gasAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for laughing gasWhether 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.