antonym
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To allay confusion, “Squid Game: The Challenge” is a living antonym of authenticity in that it is one of the most thoroughly engineered reality competition shows on TV.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023
Since the advent of talkies, “Hollywood” has been, in some serious circles, the pejorative antonym of “serious” music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
I’m not sure there’s a precise antonym for “nice.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2020
“Nature” became the antonym of “society” in the minds of philosophers, in the policies of European empires, and the calculations of global financial centres.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2018
But, oddly enough, the eyes were a total and surprising antonym of this smiling mouth.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
The antonyms of diversity, equity and inclusion are uniformity, inequality and exclusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
"Vocabularies, dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms, encyclopaedias are educational tools of reference and Treccani.it, as such, is consulted in schools, libraries and in all of our homes."
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2021
Among the antonyms for “nice” in Roget’s Thesaurus are “ugly,” “horrible,” “nasty” and “repulsive.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2020
It wasn’t long before I noticed, even in my own idiolect, that “awesome” and “sucks” were related as antonyms.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2017
The book contains also more than 3700 antonyms.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
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