antonym
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To allay confusion, “Squid Game: The Challenge” is a living antonym of authenticity in that it is one of the most thoroughly engineered reality competition shows on TV.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2023
I’m not sure there’s a precise antonym for “nice.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2020
A 2015 Kellblog entry from tech executive Dave Kellogg also puts the word in business terms, defining it along with its antonym, a “simplifier.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2019
“Nature” became the antonym of “society” in the minds of philosophers, in the policies of European empires, and the calculations of global financial centres.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2018
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
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