wild oat

Questions about wild oat

What is another word for wild oat?

It depends which wild oat you mean. In the sense “common in meadows and pastures”, the synonyms are wild oat grass, Avena fatua. 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 wild oat?

WordNet records no antonym for wild oat. 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 wild oat 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 wild oat

• Full entry for wild oatAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wild oatWhether 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.