antonym

Example Sentences

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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

Over the past 50 years, the natural environment has been treated as an antonym of the human economy.

From The Guardian • Oct. 28, 2019

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

Reaction times on the antonym test, giving the opposites to words, were very low; average 1.4 seconds.

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