woodlouse

Questions about woodlouse

What is another word for woodlouse?

It depends which woodlouse you mean. In the sense “any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats”, the synonyms are wood louse, slater. 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 woodlouse?

WordNet records no antonym for woodlouse. 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 woodlouse 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 woodlouse

• Full entry for woodlouseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for woodlouseWhether 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.