antonym
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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
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
At other stations, boys learn to tell time, work antonym crossword puzzles, compute monetary values.
From Washington Times • May 7, 2016
In the fullest sense of that which is not only without the will but distinctly in opposition to it, or compulsory, involuntary becomes an antonym, not only of voluntary but of spontaneous; as, involuntary servitude.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
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