mongrel
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic
Types & categories
- variation hypernym
Related & opposite
- mongrelize derivation
- bastardize derivation
- bastardly derivation
- fake derivation
Sense 2 noun
an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
Types & categories
- dog hypernym
- feist hyponym
- pariah dog hyponym
Related & opposite
- mongrelize derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | mongrelize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bastardize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bastardly |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fake |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | variation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mongrelize |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | dog |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | feist |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | pariah dog |