ordinal number

Questions about ordinal number

What is another word for ordinal number?

It depends which ordinal number you mean. In the sense “the number designating place in an ordered sequence”, the synonyms are ordinal, no.. 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 ordinal number?

WordNet records no antonym for ordinal number. 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 ordinal number 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 ordinal number

• Full entry for ordinal numberAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ordinal numberWhether 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.