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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

If a labor of love doubles the power of the soul, a labor of hate, to use an antonym term, warps it, poisons it, destroys it.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

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

Without looking them up on Google, try to guess the meanings of the foreign antonyms tobi and kekere.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2015

Subjective and objective are synonyms in but one point of view, being, for the most part, strictly antonyms.

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


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