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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

“Nature” became the antonym of “society” in the minds of philosophers, in the policies of European empires, and the calculations of global financial centres.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2018

At other stations, boys learn to tell time, work antonym crossword puzzles, compute monetary values.

From Washington Times ● May 7, 2016

But, oddly enough, the eyes were a total and surprising antonym of this smiling mouth.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

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

Out of a wide range of antonyms available for notoriety — e.g., repute, distinction, celebrity, renown, eminence, to list a handful — any one of which would fit the context nicely.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2019

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

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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