sensory hair

Questions about sensory hair

What is another word for sensory hair?

It depends which sensory hair you mean. In the sense “a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat”, the synonyms are whisker, vibrissa. 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 sensory hair?

WordNet records no antonym for sensory hair. 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 sensory hair 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 sensory hair

• Full entry for sensory hairAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sensory hairWhether 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.