screen background

Questions about screen background

What is another word for screen background?

It depends which screen background you mean. In the sense “(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear”, the synonyms are background, desktop. 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 screen background?

WordNet records no antonym for screen background. 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 screen background 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 screen background

• Full entry for screen backgroundAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for screen backgroundWhether 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.