venereal disease

Questions about venereal disease

What is another word for venereal disease?

It depends which venereal disease you mean. In the sense “a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact”, the synonyms are VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD. Across all 1 sense there are 9 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 venereal disease?

WordNet records no antonym for venereal disease. 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 venereal disease 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 venereal disease

• Full entry for venereal diseaseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for venereal diseaseWhether 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.