Antonyms: A Comprehensive Dictionary of Opposites

Posted on Oct 7, 2024 in Philosophy and ethics

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Aboca

  • Pouring, casting, packaging, potting, provide
  • Antonyms: Arrimar, approximate, looming, Allegan, unite, dedicate, delivered in/out, split, without, abstain, away, avoid

Abras

  • Overheating, inflame, ignite, inflame, calcined; wither, secar
  • Antonyms: Greening off, cool, calm, appease, calm

Rugged

  • Cliffs, intricate, bravo, wild, thorny, rugged, hilly, bumpy, hilly, rolling, rugged, rocky, uneven, impassable, steep, rough, uncouth, harsh, rude, crude, typical
  • Antonyms: Plain, practicable, expeditious, smooth, worship

Absorbed

  • Amazed, charmed, amazed, dazed, dazzled, suspense, surprise, amazed, ecstatic, enthralled, entranced, astonished
  • Antonyms: Indifferent, calm, disinterested, apathetic, skeptical

Abstruse

  • Incomprehensible, impenetrable, deep, inaccessible, hidden, concealed, profuse difficult, esoteric, obscure, abstract, tangled, convoluted, ambiguous, equívoco
  • Antonyms: Clear, obvious, easy

Cur

  • Crawling, servile, short, ignominious, infamous, loathsome, indigno
  • Antonyms: Noble, worthy, good, decent, integrate, test

Access

  • Road, lane, sidewalk, entry, shortcut, attack, attack, stroke, difficulty
  • Antonyms: Output decline, referral

Decorative

  • Accessory, additional secondary accidental
  • Antonyms: Important, momentous, fundamental

Stalk

  • Monitor, spy, peep, sight, pry, poke, poke
  • Antonyms: Neglected, abandoned

Unblemished

  • Polished, pure, purified, pristine, genuine, immaculate diáfano
  • Antonyms: Impure, soiled, stained, poluto

Acerba

  • Sour, bitter, pungent, unripe, painful, violent, harsh
  • Antonyms: Sweet, gentle, tractable, gentle, soft and compromising

Aciago

  • Fatal, fateful, unlucky, sinister, evil, adversity
  • Antonyms: Happy, auspicious, fortunate, lucky

Acicate

  • Incentive, stimulus, provocation, motivation, lure, call, bait, inducement, temptation, stinger, spike, spike
  • Antonyms: Despair, decay

Acopio

  • Warehousing, storage, agglomeration, hoarding, harvesting, stacking, collection, stock pile, set, abundance, collection, treasure, amount, flow, choice, repertorio
  • Antonyms: Dispersion, lack, scarcity

Acidity

  • Acrimony, bitterness, pungency, rigor, rudeness, abruptness, irritation, sarcasm, irony, caustic
  • Antonyms: Softness, kindness

Besetting

  • Urge, urge, stimulate, goad, spur, incite, instigate, desire, craving, craving
  • Antonyms: Content, calm, placate, appease, calm

Adept

  • Adherent, member, proselyte, stooge, fellow, loyal, unconditional, fan, devotee
  • Antonyms: Opposite, enemy, opponent, rival

Dressings

  • Fix, prepare, arrange, spruce, decorating, jewelry, enjoyar, decorate, seasoning, marinate
  • Antonyms: Bare, unkempt, deface

Admonition

  • Reproach, rebuke, reprimand, scolding, reprimand, reproach, recrimination, invective, warning, sermon, warning, exhortation, advice, apercibimiento
  • Antonyms: Praise, encomium, eulogy

Aduc

  • Argue, impose, mention, cite, claim, declare
  • Antonyms: Support, access

Dour

  • Sullen, severe, serious, dry, austere, sober, rough, disagreeable, acrid
  • Antonyms: Affable, friendly, cordial, affectionate, easygoing

Adjacent

  • Next, together, attached, bonded, attached, appended, immediate neighbor, close, juxtaposed, annex, adjacent
  • Antonyms: Distant, detached, distant resource

Agape

  • Banquet, feast, invitation, lunch, feast, feast

Crouched

  • Hide, estaralacecho, camouflage, hidden
  • Antonyms: Shown, rise up, stand up, show off

Earnestly

  • Desire, desire, persistence, zeal, tenacity, determination, spirit, passion, determination
  • Antonyms: Apathy, disinterest, undifferentiated, carelessness, negligence

Ahit

  • Tired, bored, angry, tired, full, satisfied, full, colmado
  • Antonyms: Happy, rested, hungry, needy

Aleve

  • Traitor, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, wily, insidious
  • Antonyms: Loyal, honest, sincere, noble

Algidus

  • Frigid, glacial algente, ice cream supreme, high, conclusive and definitive
  • Antonyms: Hot, scorching

Altivo

  • Arrogant, conceited, arrogant, bizarre, flamboyant, fiery, upright, straight
  • Antonyms: Modest, humble, simple

Amaina

  • Calm, moderate, diminish, weaken, calm, faltering, stop, clear up
  • Antonyms: Tighten, increase, curling

Daunted

  • Daunt, acoquinar, belittle, scare, daunt, discouraged, shrink, acarroñarse
  • Antonyms: Encourage, challenge, dare

Amphibology

  • Ambiguity, misunderstanding, confusion, darkness, dilogía, jitter, distortion, rodeo, promiscuity
  • Antonyms: Clarity, accuracy, precision

Animosity

  • Disaffection, rancor, antipathy, hostility, ill will, animosity, resentment, hatred, disgust, hatred, dislike, disgust, abomination, animosity
  • Antonyms: Love, friendship, appreciation, devotion, sympathy, affection

Anodina

  • Bland, tasteless, innocuous, insipid, superficial, anodyne, sedative
  • Antonyms: Tasty, important, funny, deep

Annihilate

  • Humiliate, bring down, demolish, destroy, deter, overwhelm, confuse, sorprender
  • Antonyms: Build, encourage

Apocrypha

  • Chimerical, liar, simulated, adulterated, fabricated, misleading, distorted, inaccurate, illegal, imitated, mystified
  • Antonyms: True, accurate

Urges

  • Necessity, urgency, urgency, presses, requirement, obligation, trouble, pestering, speed, pressure, coacción
  • Antonyms: Slow, delay, calm, tranquility, parsimony

Apprehension

  • Distrust, fear, distrust, suspicion, prejudice, repair, disgust
  • Antonyms: Security, confidence, nonchalance

Acquiescence

  • Settlement, approval, acceptance, consent, satisfaction, compliance
  • Antonyms: Negative, prohibicióndesautorización, disagree, disagreement

Arbitrary

  • Abuse, injustice, tyranny, despotism, illegality, abuse, insult, abuse, bias, injustice, inequality
  • Antonyms: Right, justice, legality, fairness, equity

Stratagem

  • Trick, cunning, stratagem, trickery, martingale
  • Antonyms: Sincerity, nobility, clarity, transparency

Argue

  • Reply, argue, plead, disagree, oppose, object, question, explain, describe, prove, demonstrate
  • Antonyms: Support, accede, acquiesce, pacify

At

  • Enchant, enrapture, bewitch, seduce, love, love to
  • Antonyms: Rejecting, disinterested, inhibit, entertain, sadden

Asceticism

  • Hermit, hermit, recluse, solitary, penitent, sober, austere, humble, sencillo
  • Antonyms: Frivolous, dissolute, vicious, mundane

Siege

  • Encircle, besiege, surround, harass, stalk
  • Antonyms: Pacify, leave, reassure, appease

Asepsis

  • Hygiene, purification, sterilization, disinfection, antisepsis
  • Antonyms: Dirt, infection

Assertive

  • Assertion, guarantee, witness
  • Antonyms: Denial

Asir

  • Apprehend, grasp, hold, hold on, hook, lock, catch
  • Antonyms: Drop, detached, start, stop

Atavicas

  • Ancestral, hereditary, traditional
  • Antonyms: Current, contemporary, modern

Warm

  • Mitigate, soften, damp
  • Antonyms: Irritability, stress, hardening, aggravate

Ater

  • Freeze, cool, aterecer, stun
  • Antonyms: Heating, lighting, suffocate

Atiza

  • Excite, stimulate, dazzle
  • Antonyms: Moderate, calm

Afflict

  • Distress, torment, embarrass, distress, disconsolate, sad
  • Antonyms: Soothe, cheer, happy, consoling, encouraging, comforting

Endorse

  • Certify, support, ratify, endorse, guarantee, confirm
  • Antonyms: Wary, suspicious

Aversion

  • Antipathy, abhorrence, revulsion
  • Antonyms: Sympathy, affection

Avez

  • Accustomed, customary, acclimatized, trained, seasoned, skilled, hardened, veteran, familiar, seasoned expert
  • Antonyms: Inexperienced, greenhorn, rookie, clumsy

Avies

  • Irregular, tortuous, twisted, deviant, evil, sinister, evil
  • Antonyms: Straight, honest, noble, normal

Avizor

  • Discern, observe, monitor, spy, scrutinize
  • Antonyms: Neglect, ignore

Azores

  • Unnerve, scare, embarrass, blush, irritated, lit
  • Antonyms: Soothe, calm

Baladron

  • Bluff, bravado, bluster, bravado
  • Antonyms: Timidity, cowardice, pusillanimity

Baldi

  • Sterile, barren, infertile, barren, arid, unfounded, useless idle
  • Antonyms: Fertile, cultivated, useful, necessary

BANAL

  • Regular, superficial, insignificant, trivial
  • Antonyms: Exclusive, unique, substantial, important, profound, transcendent

Bastion

  • Fort, fortress, rampart, defense, protection, fence, fence, trench
  • Antonyms: Check-out, weak, weakness, despondency

Basto

  • Coarse, regular, rough, rustic, uncouth, vulgar
  • Antonyms: Fine, delicate, polite

Birla

  • Dispossess, rob, steal, pilfer
  • Antonyms: Restore

Boato

  • Luxury, pomp, splendor, sumptuousness, opulence, magnificence
  • Antonyms: Simplicity

Candor

  • Innocence, naivete, gullibility
  • Antonyms: Hypocrisy, dissimulation, duplicity, mischief, mischievousness, disbelief

Canon

  • Rule, decision, decree, order, exemplary, model, prototype, measurement, pattern; repertoire

Celo

  • Devotion, steadfastness, perseverance, attention, desire, determination, hard work
  • Antonyms: Neglect, indifference, apathy, inactivity, fickleness, inattention

Ciment

  • Found, base, consolidate, base, institute
  • Antonyms: Demolish, destroy, disturb, shake

Circunloquio

  • Periphrasis, frankly, cinrconlucacion, digression, digression
  • Antonyms: Brevity, conciseness, accuracy, precision, clarity

Cisma

  • Disunity, disagreement, dissension, antagonism, rivalry, contempt, rebellion, heresy, dissent rupture
  • Antonyms: Unit, compromise, harmony, reverence, discipline, orthodoxy

Claudic

  • Subjected to compromise, limp, withdraw, renounce, surrender, withdraw
  • Antonyms: Insist, resist, rebel, stubborn, mutiny

Coercion

  • Imposition, coercion, constraint, compulsion, constraint, mandate, threats, oppression
  • Antonyms: Spontaneity, freedom, ease

Colleagues

  • Result, conclusion, result, reason, understand, take, perceive, understand, judge
  • Antonyms: Foresee

Collusion

  • Alliance, concert, arrangement, compromise, complicity
  • Antonyms: Disagreement, rupture, split

Complexion

  • Organization, structure, shape, composition, temperament, character

Lust

  • Sensuality, greed, erotic, lewd, lust, incontinence, carnality, erotomania, impudence, usury, selfishness, greed
  • Antonyms: Chastity, cleanliness, decency, virtue, honesty, temperance, frugality, moderation, continence

Guess

  • Hypothesis, presumption, assumption, probability, suspicion, theory, hunch, hint, cabal
  • Antonyms: Reality, accuracy, certainty, security, compliance

Leads

  • Behave, bear, endure, conform, bend, resign, deal
  • Antonyms: Impatient, rebel, worry, quarreling; refrain, ignore

Calls

  • Intimidate, order, compel, constrain, require, oblige
  • Antonyms: Emboldened, encouraged, encorajinarse, rebel, insolent

Commiseration

  • Pity, mercy, charity, kindness, benevolence
  • Antonyms: Disdain, ruthlessness, indifference, ridicule, selfishness, callousness, coldness, rudeness

Customary

  • Common, frequent, customary traditional, ordinary, usual, routine, habitual, regular
  • Antonyms: Unaccustomed, unusual, uncommon, rare

Appeasement

  • Compromise, acquiesce, temporize, temper, acquiesce, tolerate, accommodate, conform, submit
  • Antonyms: Persist, misfits, stubborn, rebel, discordant

Continence

  • Domain, temperance, control, restraint, moderation, austerity, chastity, purity
  • Antonyms: Debauchery, excess, license, relaxation, impurezalujuria, dissipation

Contrite

  • Regretful, remorseful, sorry, dejected, demoralized, beleaguered, sunken, dismayed, distressed, sad, wretched, anguished, pained, bitter, hurt, distressed, tearful, felt
  • Antonyms: Strong, stubborn, unrepentant, cheerful, lively, happy, comforted

Concubinage

  • Conspiracy, Town Hall, fornication, concubinage, collusion, conspiracy, machination, complicity
  • Antonyms: Purity, loyalty, fidelity

Contempt

  • Stubborn, rebellious, unrepentant, stubbornness, refusal
  • Antonyms: Flexibility, gentleness, compromise, understanding, tolerance, regret

Crapule

  • Corruption, vice, depravity, debauchery, lost, degenerate, depraved, dissipated, debauched, perverted, skull
  • Antonyms: Integrity, morality, honesty, sobriety, virtue, righteousness, moderation, modesty, decorum

Cruenta

  • Bloody, brutal, ferocious, fierce
  • Antonyms: Man, pious, civilized, gentle, peaceful

Whistle blower

  • Confidence, blow, betrayal, revelation
  • Antonyms: Silence, concealment, secrecy

Crumbly

  • Delicate, fragile, unstable, weak, elastic, perishable, transient, fleeting, ephemeral, fleeting, futile, light, unfounded
  • Antonyms: Solid, secure, consistent, firm, enduring, evergreen, everlasting, founded

Insult

  • To insult, offend, insult, decry, denigrate, demean, stigmatize, sully, vilify, slander, censure, outrage, slander, gossip, demean, embarrass, detract, cursing
  • Antonyms: Praise, cajole, appreciate, exalt, lift, weigh, advocate, honor

Valiance

  • Spirit, courage, resolve, courage, boldness, bravery, zeal, gallantry, bravery, courage, gills
  • Antonyms: Timidity, cowardice, discouragement, indecision, shyness, apprehension

Regret

  • Grieve, Ament, grieve
  • Antonyms: Celebrate, cheer, praise, rejoice

Malaise

  • Pruritus, itching, cravings, anxiety, displeasure, vapidity
  • Antonyms: Well-being, tranquility, serenity, calm, carefree, pleasure

Roughly

  • Instruct, refine, polish, educate, civilize, refine, smooth, shaping, refining
  • Antonyms: Delay, mislead, befuddle, coarsen, stun

Slighting

  • Scorn, disdain, despise, reject, undermine
  • Antonyms: Respect, esteem, appreciate, flatter, praise

Dropout

  • Abjuration, renunciation, betrayal, abandonment, escape, exodus, evasion, flight, infidelidad
  • Antonyms: Fidelity, loyalty

Desidia

  • Abandonment, laziness, sloppiness, carelessness, indolence, apathy, indifference, laziness, slack, laziness, inaction, inactivity, sluggishness, indolence, idleness, despreocion, ment, indifference, listlessness
  • Antonyms: Care, zeal, diligence, activity, dynamics, readiness, efficiency, lightness, speed, quickness, interest, application

Devel

  • Display, disclose, externalizing, Awakening, snuff, toil, worry, wait on, applied endeavor
  • Antonyms: Hide, ensure, sleep, doze, neglect, ignore

Detent

  • Usurp, seize, seize, purchased, acquire, assume, be attributed
  • Antonyms: Discard, divest, abdicate, to break free, to renounce, resign

Detractors

  • Denigrated, defamatory, discrediting, cursing, defamatory, libelous, censored, censor, ofensor
  • Antonyms: Commended, flattering, flattered, panegyrist

Prejudice

  • Damage, injury, impairment, deterioration, decline, depreciation, injury, injustice, arbitrariness
  • Antonyms: Benefit, advantage, respect

Diatriba

  • Libel, diatribe, invective, slander, assault, censorship, satire, pasquinade, lampoon, violencia
  • Antonyms: Dithyramb, praise, panegyric, flatter

Tithe

  • Harm, damage, impair, wipe, delete, masacrar
  • Antonyms: Assist, auxiliary, sensitize, humanize

Delay

  • Delay, deferral, renewal, transfer, moratorium and widening, lengthening
  • Antonyms: Restriction, shrinkage, tightness, reduction, advancement, anticipation, speed, agility, haste

Dintel

  • Ridge, lintel, flower-beds

Discern

  • Discriminate, understand, appreciate, perceive, understand, decode, comprehend; adjudicar
  • Antonyms: Confuse, ignore, hesitate, deny

Díscolo

  • Unruly, rebellious, naughty, disruptive, ungovernable
  • Antonyms: Docile, quiet, disciplined, submissive

Discrepancy

  • Disunity, divergence, disagreement, dissension, dissent, oposición
  • Antonyms: Match, agreement, concord, compliance, concurrence, congruence, compatibility

Debauched

  • Depraved, vicious, debauched, corrupt, dissipated, unrestrained, extravagant, addicted, immoral, skull, lewd, indecent, obscene
  • Antonyms: Temperate, moderate, virtuous, austere, sober, prudent

Disquisition

  • Discussion, dispute, investigation, reasoning, analysis, debate, vagary
  • Antonyms: Disinterest, unanimously

Deter

  • Aside, discourage, divert
  • Antonyms: Persuade, encourage, advise, spur, inspire, induce

Fold

  • Hem, fold bellows, ambiguity, contradiction, hypocrisy, deception, fraud, dissimulation, simulation, falsehood, deception, fiction, disloyalty
  • Antonyms: Naturalness, accuracy, simplicity, sincerity, loyalty, honesty

Dolo

  • Deception, duplicity, lying, cheating, swindling, timo
  • Antonyms: Sincerity, truth, clarity, honesty

Egregio

  • Conspicuous, illustrious, renowned, famous, celebrated, glorious, accredited, distinguished, eminent, dignified, high, prestigious, honorable, noteworthy, patriot, outstanding, worthy, enlightened, importantly, illustrious, landmark, marked, sublime, benemérito
  • Antonyms: Despicable, vulgar, unknown, negligible, insignificant, discredited, ordinary, common, inconsiderate, rejected, unworthy

Eloquence

  • Oratory, loquacity, talkativeness

Embargo

  • Hold, seize, absorb, fascinate, enchant; abstract, sumirse
  • Antonyms: Provide

Upright

  • Upright, vertical
  • Antonyms: Bent, crooked, twisted, shrunken

Ensan

  • Exasperate, enrage, exacerbate, outrage, twitching, primed, fierce enconarse
  • Antonyms: Soften, soothe, calm, appease, cool, pity, compassion, moved, forgive, relent, compromise, give up, apologize

Equity

  • Equality, fairness, justice, righteousness, objectivity, moderation, integrity, kindness, honesty
  • Antonyms: Subjectivity, bias, desequilibriodesigualdad, inequality, inequity, injustice

Escueta

  • Concise, bare, dry, laconic, sparse
  • Antonyms: Reloaded, complex, pompous, inflated, lengthy

Scrawny

  • Emaciated, exhausted, puny, sickly
  • Antonyms: Strong, robust

Sporadic

  • Weird, loose, isolated, discontinuous, precarious, transitory
  • Antonyms: Common, usual, ordinary, petty

Meager

  • Small, miserable, short, shallow, trivial, paltry, pathetic, parco
  • Antonyms: Heavy, big, huge, excessive, considerable, copious, hearty, a fat, opulent

Expiring

  • Dies, die out, cease, terminar
  • Antonyms: Start, birth, caused, reborn, revived

Contestability

  • Conquer, apoderarsede, master, lord, occupy, subdue, bring
  • Antonyms: Defend, oppugn, fight back

Exultation

  • Happy, joy, elation, euphoria
  • Antonyms: Depression, sadness, pessimism, trouble, tribulation, anguish, misery, distress

Factions

  • Faction, starting side; guerrilla raid

Philanthropy

  • Selfishness, misanthropy, interest

Flagrant

  • Obvious, incontestable, indisputable, indubitable, clear
  • Antonyms: Uncertain, doubtful, questionable, concealed

Foraneo

  • Alien, exótico
  • Antonyms: Compatriot, indigenous, aboriginal, native

Static

  • Loud, deafening, rumbling
  • Antonyms: Silent, quiet, imperceptible

Frugal

  • Moderate, sober, continent, temperate, morigerado
  • Antonyms: Greedy, excessive, immoderate

Fruition

  • Enjoyment, joy, pleasure, delight, comfort, taste, happy, joy, alborozo
  • Antonyms: Displeasure, disgust, pain, distress, sorrow, bitterness, suffering

Whipped

  • Paste, flagellate, punish, tease, railing, censor, zaherir
  • Antonyms: Caress, cuddle, praise

Futile

  • Insubstantial, frivolous, slight, insignificant, childish, empty, vacuous, trivial
  • Antonyms: Fundamental, capital, important, serious, transcendent