antonym

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Also, Lynell George’s “City of Specters,” which began with Truman Capote’s report that most L.A. students, asked to specify the antonym of “youth,” answered “death.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2023

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

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

Logically the other side of white is not white, while the antonym is the extreme black.

From Public Speaking by Stratton, Clarence