sphinx moth

Questions about sphinx moth

What is another word for sphinx moth?

It depends which sphinx moth you mean. In the sense “any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed”, the synonyms are hawkmoth, hawk moth, sphingid, hummingbird moth. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 sphinx moth?

WordNet records no antonym for sphinx moth. 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 sphinx moth 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 sphinx moth

• Full entry for sphinx mothAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sphinx mothWhether 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.