wood shavings

Questions about wood shavings

What is another word for wood shavings?

It depends which wood shavings you mean. In the sense “thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing”, the synonyms are excelsior. 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 wood shavings?

WordNet records no antonym for wood shavings. 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 wood shavings 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 shavings

• Full entry for wood shavingsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wood shavingsWhether 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.