laughing owl

Questions about laughing owl

What is another word for laughing owl?

It depends which laughing owl you mean. In the sense “almost extinct owl of New Zealand”, the synonyms are laughing jackass, Sceloglaux albifacies. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 owl?

WordNet records no antonym for laughing owl. 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 owl 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 owl

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