off-speed pitch

Questions about off-speed pitch

What is another word for off-speed pitch?

It depends which off-speed pitch you mean. In the sense “a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball”, the synonyms are change-up, change-of-pace, change-of-pace ball. 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 off-speed pitch?

WordNet records no antonym for off-speed pitch. 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 off-speed pitch 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 off-speed pitch

• Full entry for off-speed pitchAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for off-speed pitchWhether 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.