melanoma

Questions about melanoma

What is another word for melanoma?

It depends which melanoma you mean. In the sense “any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes”, the synonyms are malignant melanoma. 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 melanoma?

WordNet records no antonym for melanoma. 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 melanoma 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 melanoma

• Full entry for melanomaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for melanomaWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.