sour grass

Questions about sour grass

What is another word for sour grass?

It depends which sour grass you mean. In the sense “any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine”, the synonyms are dock, sorrel. 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 sour grass?

WordNet records no antonym for sour grass. 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 sour grass 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 sour grass

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