nuclear weapon

Questions about nuclear weapon

What is another word for nuclear weapon?

It depends which nuclear weapon you mean. In the sense “a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction”, the synonyms are atomic weapon. 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 nuclear weapon?

WordNet records no antonym for nuclear weapon. 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 nuclear weapon 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 nuclear weapon

• Full entry for nuclear weaponAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for nuclear weaponWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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