pistol

Questions about pistol

What is another word for pistol?

It depends which pistol you mean. In the sense “a firearm that is held and fired with one hand”, the synonyms are handgun, side arm, shooting iron. 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 pistol?

WordNet records no antonym for pistol. 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 pistol 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 pistol

• Full entry for pistolAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pistolWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.