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antonym

[an-tuh-nim] / ˈæn tə nɪm /
NOUN
word with opposite meaning to another word
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I'm not sure "graceful" has a strong enough antonym to describe my first lurches toward a world flipped upside down.

From Salon Mar. 31, 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

Perhaps curiously, the obvious antonym `lossitude' is rare.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

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

And still the signs fluttered and scattered, the book of antonyms ripped up by Sanders delegates, who tore at its pages and yanked at its binding, its brittle glue.

From The New Yorker Aug. 1, 2016

Without looking them up on Google, try to guess the meanings of the foreign antonyms tobi and kekere.

From Scientific American Oct. 20, 2015

We must now deal with synonyms, and incidentally antonyms, as they associate themselves in larger groups.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)




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