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antonym

[an-tuh-nim] / ˈæn tə nɪm /
NOUN
word with opposite meaning to another word
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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

At other stations, boys learn to tell time, work antonym crossword puzzles, compute monetary values.

From Washington Times ● May 7, 2016

The term and its antonym were maintained by Linnaeus with the same sense, but with restricted application, in the names of the orders of his class Didynamia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various

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

Funk and Wagnalls standard handbook of synonyms, antonyms and prepositions.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office




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