smidgeon

Questions about smidgeon

What is another word for smidgeon?

It depends which smidgeon you mean. In the sense “a tiny or scarcely detectable amount”, the synonyms are shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgin, smidge. Across all 1 sense there are 8 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 smidgeon?

WordNet records no antonym for smidgeon. 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 smidgeon 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 smidgeon

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