antonym

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

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

The antonyms of diversity, equity and inclusion are uniformity, inequality and exclusion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

"Vocabularies, dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms, encyclopaedias are educational tools of reference and Treccani.it, as such, is consulted in schools, libraries and in all of our homes."

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2021

Among the antonyms for “nice” in Roget’s Thesaurus are “ugly,” “horrible,” “nasty” and “repulsive.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2020

It wasn’t long before I noticed, even in my own idiolect, that “awesome” and “sucks” were related as antonyms.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2017

A book of the ordinarily used synonyms of words, with antonyms after some of them, and with lists of associated words wherever these are likely to be useful.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor