summer sweet

Questions about summer sweet

What is another word for summer sweet?

It depends which summer sweet you mean. In the sense “shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers”, the synonyms are sweet pepperbush, pepper bush, white alder, Clethra alnifolia. 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 summer sweet?

WordNet records no antonym for summer sweet. 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 summer sweet 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 summer sweet

• Full entry for summer sweetAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for summer sweetWhether 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.