sad sack

Questions about sad sack

What is another word for sad sack?

It depends which sad sack you mean. In the sense “someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence”, the synonyms are bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, botcher, butcher, fuckup. Across all 1 sense there are 8 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 sad sack?

WordNet records no antonym for sad sack. 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 sad sack 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 sad sack

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