purple sage

Questions about purple sage

What is another word for purple sage?

It depends which purple sage you mean. In the sense “silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers”, the synonyms are chaparral sage, Salvia leucophylla. 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 purple sage?

WordNet records no antonym for purple sage. 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 purple sage 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 purple sage

• Full entry for purple sageAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for purple sageWhether 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.