antonym

Example Sentences

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Since the advent of talkies, “Hollywood” has been, in some serious circles, the pejorative antonym of “serious” music.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2021

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

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

From Washington Times • May 7, 2016

In the fullest sense of that which is not only without the will but distinctly in opposition to it, or compulsory, involuntary becomes an antonym, not only of voluntary but of spontaneous; as, involuntary servitude.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin