southpaw

Questions about southpaw

What is another word for southpaw?

It depends which southpaw you mean. In the sense “a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand”, the synonyms are left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, lefty. Across all 2 senses there are 5 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 southpaw?

WordNet records no antonym for southpaw. 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.

Why are the synonyms for southpaw split into groups?

Because southpaw carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for southpaw 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 southpaw

• Full entry for southpawAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for southpawWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.