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Questions about ruckus

What is another word for ruckus?

It depends which ruckus you mean. In the sense “the act of making a noisy disturbance”, the synonyms are commotion, din, ruction, rumpus, tumult. Across all 1 sense there are 5 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 ruckus?

WordNet records no antonym for ruckus. 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 ruckus 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 ruckus

• Full entry for ruckusAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ruckusWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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