antonym
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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
Over the past 50 years, the natural environment has been treated as an antonym of the human economy.
From The Guardian • Oct. 28, 2019
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
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Opposites Attract
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