Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

00908483-a 'substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one';

English	euphemistic ( ⊳ ⇔ ) , inoffensive
Japanese	婉曲 , 差し障りのない

Definitions

Japanese: きつく、悪い言葉にかえてやさしい言葉にする
― 「ピーピー」は共通の婉曲表現用語である
English: substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one
― `peepee' is a common euphemistic term

Relations

Antonym:	dysphemistic
Semantic Field:	all_a

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ △ ▶ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.000; Future: 0.128)

SentiWN: △ ▼ (+0.00 -0.62) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.38 -0.38)