shutdown

Questions about shutdown

What is another word for shutdown?

It depends which shutdown you mean. In the sense “termination of operations”, the synonyms are closure, closedown, closing. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 shutdown?

WordNet records no antonym for shutdown. 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 shutdown 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 shutdown

• Full entry for shutdownAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for shutdownWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.