unknot

Questions about unknot

What is another word for unknot?

It depends which unknot you mean. In the sense “become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of”, the synonyms are unravel, unscramble, untangle, unpick. 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 unknot?

The recorded antonym is knot. Opposites are sense-specific too: this page shows which meaning each one is the opposite of, because a word rarely has a single opposite that holds for all of its senses.

Where do the synonyms for unknot 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 unknot

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