mosquito hawk

Questions about mosquito hawk

What is another word for mosquito hawk?

It depends which mosquito hawk you mean. In the sense “slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.”, the synonyms are dragonfly, darning needle, devil's darning needle, sewing needle, snake feeder, snake doctor, skeeter hawk. Across all 2 senses there are 9 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 mosquito hawk?

WordNet records no antonym for mosquito hawk. 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 mosquito hawk split into groups?

Because mosquito hawk 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 mosquito hawk 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 mosquito hawk

• Full entry for mosquito hawkAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mosquito hawkWhether 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.