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

4 senses of fifth

Sense 1
fifth -- (a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon)
       => United States liquid unit -- (a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System)

Sense 2
fifth -- (position five in a countable series of things; "he was fifth out of several hundred runners")
       => rank -- (relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority")

Sense 3
one-fifth, fifth, fifth part, twenty percent -- (one part in five equal parts)
       => common fraction, simple fraction -- (the quotient of two integers)

Sense 4
fifth -- (the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it)
       => interval, musical interval -- (the difference in pitch between two notes)

Antonyms of adj fifth

1 sense of fifth

Sense 1
fifth, 5th -- (coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position)

INDIRECT (VIA ordinal) -> cardinal -- (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers")

Similarity of adj fifth

1 sense of fifth

Sense 1
fifth, 5th -- (coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position)
       => ordinal (vs. cardinal) -- (being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh")