true seal

Questions about true seal

What is another word for true seal?

It depends which true seal you mean. In the sense “any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers”, the synonyms are earless seal, hair seal. 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 true seal?

WordNet records no antonym for true seal. 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 true seal 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 true seal

• Full entry for true sealAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for true sealWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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