locoweed

Questions about locoweed

What is another word for locoweed?

It depends which locoweed you mean. In the sense “any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock”, the synonyms are crazyweed, crazy weed. Across all 2 senses there are 13 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 locoweed?

WordNet records no antonym for locoweed. 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 locoweed split into groups?

Because locoweed 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 locoweed 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 locoweed

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