antonym
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I’m not sure there’s a precise antonym for “nice.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2020
A 2015 Kellblog entry from tech executive Dave Kellogg also puts the word in business terms, defining it along with its antonym, a “simplifier.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2019
“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
At other stations, boys learn to tell time, work antonym crossword puzzles, compute monetary values.
From Washington Times ● May 7, 2016
Reaction times on the antonym test, giving the opposites to words, were very low; average 1.4 seconds.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William
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
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
It was a book of antonyms: the future, not the past; love, not hate.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
Do the antonyms boisterous, excited, ruffled, turbulent, and wild, also apply to the same?
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
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