swing music

Questions about swing music

What is another word for swing music?

It depends which swing music you mean. In the sense “a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz”, the synonyms are swing, jive. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 swing music?

WordNet records no antonym for swing music. 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 swing music 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 swing music

• Full entry for swing musicAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for swing musicWhether 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.