saint thomas

Questions about saint thomas

What is another word for saint thomas?

It depends which saint thomas you mean. In the sense “the Apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus until he saw Jesus with his own eyes”, the synonyms are Thomas, St. Thomas, doubting Thomas, Thomas the doubting Apostle. Across all 2 senses 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 saint thomas?

WordNet records no antonym for saint thomas. 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.

Why are the synonyms for saint thomas split into groups?

Because saint thomas carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for saint thomas 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 saint thomas

• Full entry for saint thomasAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for saint thomasWhether 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.