wood

Questions about wood

What is another word for wood?

Across its 8 senses, wood has 10 distinct synonyms: forest, woods, Natalie Wood, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Henry Joseph Wood, Mrs. Henry Wood, Ellen Price Wood, Grant Wood, and others. Each belongs to a specific meaning, listed on this page under the sense it serves.

What is the opposite of wood?

WordNet records no antonym for wood. 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.

Why are the synonyms for wood split into groups?

Because wood carries 8 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for wood 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 wood

• Full entry for woodAll 8 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for woodWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.