sit-down

Questions about sit-down

What is another word for sit-down?

It depends which sit-down you mean. In the sense “a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached”, the synonyms are sit-down strike. 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 sit-down?

WordNet records no antonym for sit-down. 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 sit-down 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 sit-down

• Full entry for sit-downAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sit-downWhether 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.