remain
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
stay the same; remain in a certain state
The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it
Types & categories
- be hypernym
- keep out hyponym
- sit tight hyponym
- stick together hyponym
- stand hyponym
- stay fresh hyponym
- be hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
continue in a place, position, or situation
After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- stay derivation
- protraction derivation
Sense 3 verb
be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.
There remains the question of who pulled the trigger
Types & categories
- be hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
stay behind
The smell stayed in the room
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- persistent derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | change |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stay |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | keep out |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sit tight |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stick together |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stand |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stay fresh |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | be |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stay |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | protraction |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | abide |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hold over |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | oddment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | rest |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | remnant |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | persistent |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | stick |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | linger |