wolf fish

Questions about wolf fish

What is another word for wolf fish?

It depends which wolf fish you mean. In the sense “large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins”, the synonyms are wolffish, catfish. 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 wolf fish?

WordNet records no antonym for wolf fish. 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 wolf fish 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 wolf fish

• Full entry for wolf fishAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wolf fishWhether 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.