- plural of antonym.
antonyms
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The antonyms of diversity, equity and inclusion are uniformity, inequality and exclusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
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From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2021
Among the antonyms for “nice” in Roget’s Thesaurus are “ugly,” “horrible,” “nasty” and “repulsive.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2020
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
To speakers and writers antonyms are useful as furnishing oftentimes effective antitheses.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
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