antonym

Example Sentences

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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

At other stations, boys learn to tell time, work antonym crossword puzzles, compute monetary values.

From Washington Times • May 7, 2016

But what about the opposite of property—property's antonym, property's outside?

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James