departures

Main Entry:
departure [dih-pahr-cher]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: leaving
Synonyms: abandonment, adieu, bow out, congé, decampment, desertion, egress, egression, embarkation, emigration, escape, evacuation, exit, exodus, expatriation, farewell, flight, getaway, going, going away, goodbye*, hegira, migration, parting, passage, powder, quitting, recession, removal, retirement, retreat, sailing, separation, setting forth, setting out, stampede, start, takeoff, taking leave, taking off, vacation, vanishing act, walkout, withdrawal, withdrawing
Antonyms: arrival, coming, entrance
Related Words
Main Entry: departure
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
abducent, abductive, apopemptic, departing, dimissory, effused, fled, nidifugous, outgoing, outward bound, rebarbative, repellent, repelling, repulsive, stolen away, valedictory
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Initial motion from] Departure.
Category: 4. Motion with reference to direction
Synonyms:
-nouns
departure, decession, decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit (egress); exodus, hejira, flight., leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista; stirrup cup; valedictorian., starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation.
-verbs
depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from., leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose [U.S.]; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail, put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get underway, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say goodbye, bid goodbye; disappear; abscond (avoid); entrain; inspan.
-adjectives
departing; valedictory; outward bound.
-adverbs
whence, hence, thence; with a foot in the stirrup; on the wing, on the move.
Antonyms: arrival
Browse Concept Index »
Main Entry: aberration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: different from that expected
Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference, distortion, divergence, diversion, irregularity, lapse, straying, wandering
Antonyms: conformity, sameness
Main Entry: anomaly
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deviation from normal, usual
Synonyms: aberration, abnormality, departure, deviation, eccentricity, exception, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity, unconformity, unorthodoxy
Antonyms: conformity, normality, regularity, standard, usual, usualness
Main Entry: aside
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: confidential statement
Synonyms: departure, digression, discursion, interpolation, interposition, parenthesis, tangent, throwaway
Main Entry: avoidance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: eluding; preventing
Synonyms: absention, circumvention, delay, departure, dodge, dodging, elusion, escape, escapism, eschewal, evasion, flight, forbearance, nonparticipation, parry, passive resistance, prevention, recession, recoil, restraint, retreat, run-around, self-restraint, shirking, shunning, steering clear of
Antonyms: meeting
Main Entry: brain drain
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: loss of important personnel
Synonyms: departure, mass exodus, turnover
Main Entry: death
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: end of life
Synonyms: afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb
Antonyms: being, birth, entity, existence, life, living
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