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

Bournemouth have almost been the antonym of Huddersfield this season.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2018

In the fullest sense of that which is not only without the will but distinctly in opposition to it, or compulsory, involuntary becomes an antonym, not only of voluntary but of spontaneous; as, involuntary servitude.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

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

And still the signs fluttered and scattered, the book of antonyms ripped up by Sanders delegates, who tore at its pages and yanked at its binding, its brittle glue.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

In fact, if we repeat the exercise with antonyms for shapes, sound intensities or even brightness in other foreign languages, we will still agree more than half the time.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2015

Ordinarily such topics as derivation of words, root prefixes, suffixes, homonyms, antonyms, synonyms, and hyphens are taught, either as a part of composition or as a part of dictionary exercises.

From Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller For Grades One to Eight by Ashbaugh, Ernest J.