antonym

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

Logically the other side of white is not white, while the antonym is the extreme black.

From Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton

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

Out of a wide range of antonyms available for notoriety — e.g., repute, distinction, celebrity, renown, eminence, to list a handful — any one of which would fit the context nicely.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2019

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

We must now deal with synonyms, and incidentally antonyms, as they associate themselves in larger groups.

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