antonym
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I'm not sure "graceful" has a strong enough antonym to describe my first lurches toward a world flipped upside down.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 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 William Healy
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
It wasn’t long before I noticed, even in my own idiolect, that “awesome” and “sucks” were related as antonyms.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2017
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
Ordinarily such topics as derivation of words, root prefixes, suffixes, homonyms, antonyms, synonyms, and hyphens are taught, either as a part of composition or as a part of dictionary exercises.
From Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller For Grades One to Eight by Ernest J. Ashbaugh
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Opposites Attract
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