Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun antenna

3 senses of antenna

Sense 1
antenna, aerial, transmitting aerial -- (an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals)
       => electrical device -- (a device that produces or is powered by electricity)

Sense 2
antenna, feeler -- (sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; "he had a special antenna for public relations")
       => sensitivity, sensitiveness -- (the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment)

Sense 3
antenna, feeler -- (one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste)
       => tentacle -- (any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion)