fish bowl

Questions about fish bowl

What does fish bowl mean?

fish bowl means "a state of affairs in which you have no privacy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fish bowl?

Close synonyms include goldfish bowl, fishbowl, fishbowl, goldfish bowl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fish bowl a common word?

fish bowl is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.