traffic jam

Questions about traffic jam

What is another word for traffic jam?

It depends which traffic jam you mean. In the sense “a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move”, the synonyms are snarl-up. 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 traffic jam?

WordNet records no antonym for traffic jam. 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 traffic jam 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 traffic jam

• Full entry for traffic jamAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for traffic jamWhether 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.