private detective

Questions about private detective

What is another word for private detective?

It depends which private detective you mean. In the sense “someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information”, the synonyms are PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlock. Across all 1 sense there are 6 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 private detective?

WordNet records no antonym for private detective. 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 private detective 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 private detective

• Full entry for private detectiveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for private detectiveWhether 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.