sea anchor

Questions about sea anchor

What is another word for sea anchor?

It depends which sea anchor you mean. In the sense “restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind”, the synonyms are drogue. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 sea anchor?

WordNet records no antonym for sea anchor. 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 sea anchor 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 sea anchor

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