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

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

It is a word of which the antonym is drifting.

From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold