wax figure

Questions about wax figure

What is another word for wax figure?

It depends which wax figure you mean. In the sense “an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax”, the synonyms are waxwork. 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 wax figure?

WordNet records no antonym for wax figure. 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 wax figure 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 wax figure

• Full entry for wax figureAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wax figureWhether 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.