Synonyms and antonyms (N)

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Synonyms are two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context, opposite of antonym.

Syn.: catch, clutch, grasp, seize, lay hold on, lay hands on, see catch.

Syn.: millionaire, croesus, mau of wealth, man of fortune, very rich man, man of great distinction.
antonym(s): man not wealthy, man not distinguished.

Syn.: nude, bare, unclothed, denuded, undraped, defenceless, destitute, unqualified, uncolored, unvarnished, mere, simple.
antonym(s): dressed, robed, draped, muffled, protected, qualified, veiled, shrouded, colored, varnished.

Syn.: designation, cognomination, appellation, title, fame, reputation, authority, appointment, stead, representation.
antonym(s): namelessness, anonymousness, misnomer, pseudonym, obscurity, ingloriousness, disrepute, individuality, person.

Syn.: spectry, designate, call, indicate.
antonym(s): misname, miscall, misdesignate, misindicate, hint, suggest, shadow, adumbrate.

Syn.: recite, tell, report, detail, relate, rehearse, recount.
antonym(s): suppress, conceal, blink, misreport, misrepresent, misrelate, misstate.

Syn.: straight, straightened, slender, thin, spare, contracted, limited, cramped, pinched, scant, close, scrutinizing, near, bigoted, niggardly, tight.
antonym(s): wide, broad, ample, thick, expanded, easy, liberal.

Syn.: youthful, rising, green, incipient, embryo, rudimental, budding.
antonym(s): mature, aged, confirmed, developed, grown.

Syn.: fool, offensive, odious, disagreeable, indelicate, impure, gross, unclean, obscene.
antonym(s): nice, pleasant, sweet, savory, agreeable, pure.

Syn.: race, people, realm, community, commonwealth, state, see community and people.

Syn.: indigenous, home, exported, artless, natural, proper, suitable, congenital, inbred, vernacular.
antonym(s): foreign, imported, exotic, alien, artificial, acquired, assumed, affected.

Syn.: intrinsic, eventual, regular, normal, cosmical, true, probable, consistent, spontaneous, unless, original.
antonym(s): acitition, adventitious, abnormal, monstrous, unnatural, fictitious, improbable, unsupposable, forced, artful, affected.

Syn.: essence, creation, constitution, structure, disposition, truth, regularity, kind, sort, character, species, affection, naturalness.
antonym(s): thing, object, subject, man, being, creature, monstrosity, unnaturalness, art, fiction, romance, invention.

Syn.: nothing.
antonym(s): aught, anything, everything.

Syn.: worthless, vile, corrupt, bad, froward, refractory, wicked, perverse.
antonym(s): worthy, good, precious, pure, docile, tractable, well-behaved.

Syn.: loathing, disgust, abomination, qualm, sea-sickness.
antonym(s): taste, relish, enjoyment.

Syn.: loathsome, sickening, disgusting, see abominable.

Syn.: nigh, close, adjacent, neighboring, (sometimes used in the sense of parsimonious).
antonym(s): far, distant, remote.

Syn.: almost, closely, approximately.
antonym(s): quite, entirely, distantly, remotely.

Syn.: certain, inevitable, indispensable, requisite, essential, compulsory, needful, expedient.
antonym(s): contingent, casual, optional, discretional, unnecessary, unessential, free.

Syn.: indispensableness, inevitableness, need, indigence, requirement, want, fate, destiny.
antonym(s): dispensableness, uncertainty, superfluity, uselessness, competence, affluence, casualty, contingency, freedom, choice.

Syn.: unnecessary, useless, superfluous, gratuitous.
antonym(s): needful, useful, helpful, obligatory.

Syn.: denying, privative, disclaiming, indirect.
antonym(s): assertive, attributive, positive, direct.

Syn.: slight, overlook, omit, disregard, disesteem, despite, contemn.
antonym(s): consider, respect, notice, observe, regard, esteem, tend, attend, foster, study.

Syn.: negligence, disregard, omission, failure, default, slight, carelessness, remissness.
antonym(s): attention, consideration, respect, notice, regard, esteem.

Syn.: transact, effect, pass, perform.
antonym(s): mismanage, misconduct, quash, stop.

Syn.: strength, firmness, resolution.
antonym(s): nerveless, forceless, feeble, weak, enfeebled, impotent, palsied, see courage.

Syn.: sting, fret, provoke, see incense.

Syn.: uninterfering, impartial, indifferent, negative, unavowed.
antonym(s): partial, interested, interfering, active, positive, declared, avowed.

Syn.: non-interference, indifference.
antonym(s): interference, activity.

Syn.: counteract, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail.
antonym(s): aggravate, enhance, intensify.

Syn.: novel, recent, fresh, modern.
antonym(s): old, ancient, antique, antiquated, obsolete.

Syn.: intelligence, information, tidings, see intelligence.

Syn.: upstart, newlight, innovating, strange, odd, fantastic, novel.
antonym(s): venerable, time-honored, established, ancient, old, old-fashioned.

Syn.: carp, cavil, peck, object, demur.
antonym(s): accept, eulogize, command, endorse, allow.

Syn.: fastidious, scrupulous, accurate, neat, discerning, dainty, pleasant, agreeable, exact, fine, finished, particular.
antonym(s): coarse, unscrupulous, inaccurate, rude, rough, undiscriminating, nasty, nauseous, disagreeable.

Syn.: fastidiousness, scrupulousness, accuracy.
antonym(s): coarseness, inaccuracy, rudeness, roughness.

Syn.: agile, quick, lively, sprightly, see slow.

Syn.: distinction, dignity, rank, peerage, lordship, loftiness, generosity, rank, aristocracy.
antonym(s): obscurity, meanness, commonalty, serfdom, paltriness, contemptibleness, plebeianism.

Syn.: grand, aristocratic, generous, illustrious, exalted, worthy, magnanimous, dignified, excellent, lofty-minded, honorable, fine.
antonym(s): mean, plebeian, ignoble, paltry.

Syn.: nightly, dark, gloomy, tenebrose.
antonym(s): diurnal, light, brilliant, solar.

Syn.: protuberance, protuberousness, knottiness, tuberosity, lumpiness.
antonym(s): planeness, evenness, smoothness, polish, levigation.

Syn.: sound, clamor, rattle, din, uproar, tumult.
antonym(s): note, voice, music, melody, silence, still n ess, voicelessness, hush.

Syn.: hurtful, harmful, nocuous, pestilential.
antonym(s): wholesome, salutary, salubrious, beneficial.

Syn.: loud, clamorous, stunning.
antonym(s): still, soft, inaudible, whispering, soothing, musical, melodious, harmonious, tuneful, subdued, gentle, noiseless.

Syn.: pastoral, vagrant, arab, scythian, roving, migratory.
antonym(s): fixed, unwandering, agricultural, unroving, urban.

Syn.: trifling, suppositious, ostensible, professed, pretended, formal.
antonym(s): real, deep, serious, important, grave, substantial, actual, intrinsic, veritable, essential.

Syn.: name, specify, appoint, individualize, define, invest, present, entitle.
antonym(s): suggest, indicate, conjecture, describe, recal, deprive, cancel, withdraw, divert.

Syn.: absurdity, trash, folly, pretense, jest, balderdash.
antonym(s): sense, wisdom, truth, fact, gravity, philosophy, science, reason.

Syn.: regular, typical, usual, recognized, natural, ordinary.
antonym(s): abnormal, irregular, unnatural, exceptional, monstrous.

Syn.: observation, cognizance, heed, advice, news, consideration, visitation, mark, note.
antonym(s): oversight, disregard, misinformation, mistidings, neglect, slight, connivance, ignorance, incognizance, heedlessness, amnesty, omission.

Syn.: mark, note, observe, attend to, mention, heed, regard, give heed to, see regard.

Syn.: notice, declaration, publication, see notice.

Syn.: intimate, declare, announce, give notice to, acquaint, communicate, apprise, inform, warn.
antonym(s): suppress, withhold, conceal, misreport.

Syn.: apprehension, idea, conception, judgment, opinion, belief, expectation, sentiment.
antonym(s): misapprehension, falsification, misbelief, misjudgment, frustration, misconception.

Syn.: publicity, vogue, repute, celebrity, knowledge certainty.
antonym(s): privacy, secrecy, concealment, obscurity, mystery, suspicion, rumor, whisper.

Syn.: known, undisputed, recognized, allowed.
antonym(s): suspected, reported, reputed.

Syn.: nurture, fed, foster, cherish, nurse, tend, support, promote.
antonym(s): starve blight, destroy, kill, wither.

Syn.: core, central part, center, kernel, see core.

Syn.: nakedness, bareness, exposure.
antonym(s): clothing, drapery, investment, dress.

Syn.: trifling, vain, inoperative, ineffectual, null, void.
antonym(s): grave, serious, important, potent, efficacious, momentous, successful, satisfactory.

Syn.: offence, annoyance, plague, pest, trouble.
antonym(s): gratification, blessing, pleasure, delight, benefit.

Syn.: abrogate, neutralize, cancel, abolish, extinguish, annul, quash, repeal.
antonym(s): confirm, perpetuate, reenact, stabilitate, establish, cherish.

Syn.: countless, innumerable, infinite,.
antonym(s): few, scarce, rare.

Syn.: hebetude, callousness, insensibility.
antonym(s): acuteness, sensibility, liveliness, sensitiveness.

Syn.: connubial, hymeneal, bridal.

Syn.: wedding, marriage, espousal, see marriage.

Syn.: see d-plot, seminary, plantation, school.
antonym(s): world, life, education, profession.

Syn.: aliment, food, sustenance, nourishment, replenishment, sustentation, pibalum.
antonym(s): starvation, languishment, decay, inanition, exhaustion, poison, detriment.

Syn.: alimentation, sustentation, feeding,.
antonym(s): exhaustion, starvation, inanition.

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