would rather

VERB

prefer

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adopt choose go for pick promote put select suggest wish

STRONG

advance aggrandize cull desire elect elevate fancy finger incline mark place pose present proposition propound raise tag take tap upgrade

WEAK

be partial to be turned on to fix upon like better opt for optate propone put forward would sooner

Antonyms

STRONGEST

dislike hate refuse reject

STRONG

decrease depress disgrace drop ignore lessen lose lower stop withhold

WEAK

spurn

Example Sentences

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Amodei said on Thursday he would rather stop working with the Pentagon than acquiesce to such threats.

From BBC

What Mr. Smith calls “the hard and abiding work” is “to listen to everything, including—especially—everything in you that you would rather ignore.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The firm's chief executive Dario Amodei said on Thursday that his company would rather not work with the Pentagon than agree to uses of its tech that may "undermine, rather than defend, democratic values."

From BBC

Anthropic would rather not be painted into a situation where it would be impossible to accommodate any demand from the U.S. government.

From Slate

Maybe they didn’t know humans would rather eat apples than mud.

From Literature

would rather

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