splayfoot

Questions about splayfoot

What is another word for splayfoot?

It depends which splayfoot you mean. In the sense “a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out”, the synonyms are flatfoot, pes planus. Across all 2 senses there are 3 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 splayfoot?

WordNet records no antonym for splayfoot. 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 splayfoot split into groups?

Because splayfoot 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 splayfoot 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 splayfoot

• Full entry for splayfootAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for splayfootWhether 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.