antonym
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To allay confusion, “Squid Game: The Challenge” is a living antonym of authenticity in that it is one of the most thoroughly engineered reality competition shows on TV.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 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
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
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