ways

Questions about ways

What is another word for ways?

It depends which ways you mean. In the sense “structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired”, the synonyms are shipway, slipway. 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 ways?

WordNet records no antonym for ways. 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 ways 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 ways

• Full entry for waysAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for waysWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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