simple sugar

Questions about simple sugar

What is another word for simple sugar?

It depends which simple sugar you mean. In the sense “a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates”, the synonyms are monosaccharide, monosaccharose. 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 simple sugar?

WordNet records no antonym for simple sugar. 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 simple sugar 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 simple sugar

• Full entry for simple sugarAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for simple sugarWhether 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.