mock sun

Questions about mock sun

What is another word for mock sun?

It depends which mock sun you mean. In the sense “a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals”, the synonyms are parhelion, sundog. 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 mock sun?

WordNet records no antonym for mock sun. 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 mock sun 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 mock sun

• Full entry for mock sunAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mock sunWhether 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.