syntactic category

Questions about syntactic category

What is another word for syntactic category?

It depends which syntactic category you mean. In the sense “(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties”, the synonyms are grammatical category. 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 syntactic category?

WordNet records no antonym for syntactic category. 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 syntactic category 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 syntactic category

• Full entry for syntactic categoryAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for syntactic categoryWhether 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.