numbfish

Questions about numbfish

What is another word for numbfish?

It depends which numbfish you mean. In the sense “any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges”, the synonyms are electric ray, crampfish, torpedo. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 numbfish?

WordNet records no antonym for numbfish. 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 numbfish 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 numbfish

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