pariah dog

Questions about pariah dog

What is another word for pariah dog?

It depends which pariah dog you mean. In the sense “ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India”, the synonyms are pye-dog, pie-dog. 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 pariah dog?

WordNet records no antonym for pariah dog. 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 pariah dog 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 pariah dog

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