sore throat

Questions about sore throat

What is another word for sore throat?

It depends which sore throat you mean. In the sense “inflammation of the fauces and pharynx”, the synonyms are pharyngitis, raw throat. 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 sore throat?

WordNet records no antonym for sore throat. 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 sore throat 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 sore throat

• Full entry for sore throatAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sore throatWhether 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.