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

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

Perhaps curiously, the obvious antonym    `lossitude' is rare. :wired: n.

From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Raymond, Eric S.