dummy
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person who does not talk
Types & categories
- mute hypernym
Sense 2 verb
make a dummy of
dummy up the books that are to be published
Types & categories
- produce hypernym
Sense 3 adjective
having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function
a dummy corporation
Related & opposite
- artificial similar to
Sense 4 noun
an ignorant or foolish person
Types & categories
- simpleton hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
a figure representing the human form
Types & categories
- figure hypernym
- lay figure hyponym
- manakin hyponym
- ventriloquist's dummy hyponym
Sense 6 noun
a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
Types & categories
- cartridge hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | mute |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | produce |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | artificial |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | blunder |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dopy |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | simpleton |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | figure |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | lay figure |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | manakin |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | ventriloquist's dummy |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | cartridge |