malicious gossip

Questions about malicious gossip

What is another word for malicious gossip?

It depends which malicious gossip you mean. In the sense “disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people”, the synonyms are scandal, dirt. 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 malicious gossip?

WordNet records no antonym for malicious gossip. 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 malicious gossip 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 malicious gossip

• Full entry for malicious gossipAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for malicious gossipWhether 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.