antonym
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Also, Lynell George’s “City of Specters,” which began with Truman Capote’s report that most L.A. students, asked to specify the antonym of “youth,” answered “death.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2023
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
Often used as a specific antonym to virtual in any of its jargon senses.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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