sow one's oats

Questions about sow one's oats

What is another word for sow one's oats?

It depends which sow one's oats you mean. In the sense “live promiscuously and self-indulgently”, the synonyms are sow one's wild oats. 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 sow one's oats?

WordNet records no antonym for sow one's oats. 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 sow one's oats 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.

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• Full entry for sow one's oatsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sow one's oatsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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