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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 "graceful" has a strong enough antonym to describe my first lurches toward a world flipped upside down.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023

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

“I was in search of an antonym and now they’ve driven it out of my memory.”

From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates

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

She gave the antonyms of twenty words in average time of 1.4'', which is a good record.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by William Healy


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