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strawman
Overview of noun strawman
The noun strawman has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman -- (a person used as a cover for some questionable activity)
2. straw man, strawman -- (a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted)
3. scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer -- (an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun strawman
3 senses of strawman
Sense 1
front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
=> deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
=> wrongdoer, offender
=> bad person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
straw man, strawman
=> specious argument
=> argument, statement
=> evidence
=> indication, indicant
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer
=> effigy, image, simulacrum
=> representation
=> creation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun strawman
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun strawman
3 senses of strawman
Sense 1
front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
=> deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
Sense 2
straw man, strawman
=> specious argument
Sense 3
scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer
=> effigy, image, simulacrum
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Attributes of noun strawman
Derived Forms of noun strawman
Domain of noun strawman
Domain Terms of noun strawman
Familiarity of noun strawman
strawman used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun strawman
3 senses of strawman
Sense 1
front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
> deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
=> bluffer, four-flusher
=> swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter
=> decoy, steerer
=> dodger, fox, slyboots
=> double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor
=> embezzler, defalcator, peculator
=> falsifier
=> finagler, wangler
=> forger, counterfeiter
=> fortune hunter
=> front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
=> hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender
=> impersonator, imitator
=> imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
=> liar, prevaricator
=> misleader
=> mountebank, charlatan
=> obscurantist
=> sandbagger
=> two-timer
=> utterer
Sense 2
straw man, strawman
> specious argument
=> vicious circle
=> straw man, strawman
=> special pleading
Sense 3
scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer
> effigy, image, simulacrum
=> Guy
=> idol, graven image, god
=> scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer
=> waxwork, wax figure
Meronyms of noun strawman
3 senses of strawman
Sense 1
front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
=> deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
=> wrongdoer, offender
=> bad person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 3
scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer
=> effigy, image, simulacrum
=> representation
=> creation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun strawman
Grep of noun strawman
strawman
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