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antonym

[an-tuh-nim] / ˈæn tə nɪm /
NOUN
word with opposite meaning to another word
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK


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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 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

One who stands at both ends of a perspective; simultaneity of sight; to be one's self plus; to be synonym and antonym to everything.

From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard

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 was a book of antonyms: the future, not the past; love, not hate.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

Also between the antonyms cast away, decline, dismiss, refuse, repudiate?

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


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