Opposites and synonyms

Opposites
Here you will find a table of words and their opposites. Opposites formed by prefixes (dis-, ex-, im-, in-, irr-, un- etc.) are not listed here.This table is not complete. Technical and geographical words are listed only in a very small amount because of clarity.

Word A about above absence abundance to accept accidental active to add to admit adult advanced affirmative afraid after against alike alive all always ancient to agree to allow already always amateur to amuse angel animal to annoy to answer answer apart approximately to argue to arrest arrival to arrive artificial to ask asleep

Opposite

exactly below presence lack to refuse intentional lazy to subtract to deny child elementary negative brave before for different dead none never modern to refuse, to argue to forbid not yet never professional to bore devil human to satisfy to ask question together exactly to agree to free, to set free departure to depart, to leave natural to answer awake

to attack attack attic autumn awake awful B back background backward bad bad luck beauty before to begin beginning behind below best better beautiful big birth bitter black blunt body to bore boring to borrow bottom boy brave to break broad brother to build busy to buy C calm careful careless to catch ceiling cellar

to defend defence, protection cellar spring asleep delicious, nice, pleasant

in front of foreground forward good fortune, good luck ugliness after to end, to stop, to finish end, ending in front of above worst worse ugly small, little death sweet white sharp soul to amuse, to be interested in exciting, interesting to lend top girl cowardly, afraid to mend, to fix narrow sister to destroy lazy to sell

excited careless careful to miss, to throw floor attic

centre certainly changeable cheap child children clean clear clever to close closed cloudy cold (adjective) cold (noun) to come comedy complicated compliment compulsory to connect consonant constant construction to continue cool correct courage courageous cowardly to create cruel to cry (schreien) to cry (weinen) D to damage danger dangerous dark daughter dawn day dead death deep defeat defence to defend

outskirts, suburb probably constant expensive adult, grown-up parents dirty cloudy stupid to open open clear, sunny, bright hot heat to go drama, tragedy simple insult voluntary to separate vowel changeable destruction to interrupt warm false, wrong fear cowardly brave, courageous to destroy human, kind to whisper to laugh

to repair security, safety safe light son dusk night alive birth, life shallow victory attack to attack

delicious to deny to depart departure desperate to destroy destruction devil dictatorship to die different difficult dirty disease distant to divide division to divorce divorce divorced domestic down downstairs drama dry dull dusk E early east easy elementary to emigrate emigration empty to end end ending enemy to enjoy to enter entrance equal even evening everybody everything

awful to admit to arrive arrival hopeful to build, to create, to form construction angel republic to live alike, equal, the same easy clean health near to unite unity to marry marriage, wedding married foreign up upstairs comedy humid, wet interesting dawn

late west difficult, hard advanced to immigrate immigration full to begin beginning beginning friend to hate to leave exit different odd morning nobody nothing

exactly excited exciting to exclude exit expensive export exposure extreme F to fail failure false far fast fat fear female few final to find to finish finish first to fix flat floor to follow to forbid for foreground foreign foreigner to forget to form fortune forward to free to freeze frequently friend front in front of full funny future Word

about, approximately calm boring to include entrance cheap import shelter moderate

to succeed, to pass success correct, true near slow slim, thin courage male many first to lose to begin start final, last to break hilly ceiling to lead to allow, to let, to permit against background domestic native to remember to destroy bad luck backward to arrest to melt occasionally enemy rear back, behind empty serious past, present Opposite

G general generous gentle gentleman girl to give to go good good luck grown-up guest guilty H happiness happy handsome hard to harvest to hate health healthy heat heaven heavy hell here high high hilly to hit hopeful hopeless horizontal host hot huge human human humid hungry husband I in front of to ignore ill to immigrate back, behind to notice healty, well to emigrate sadness sad ugly easy, soft to plant to enjoy, to like, to love disease, illness ill, sick cold hell light heaven there deep low flat to miss desperate, hopeless hopeful vertical guest, visitor cold tiny animal cruel dry thirsty wife particular, special mean violent, rough, strict lady boy to take to come, to stop bad bad luck child host innocent

immigration import in to include to increase innocent inside insult intelligent intentional to be interested in interesting to interrupt J junior K kind L lack lady to land land large last late to laugh lazy to lead to learn to leave left to lend less to let to lie life light to like liquid little little to live long to lose loser loud to love

emigration export out to exclude to reduce guilty outside compliment silly, stupid accidental to bore boring, dull to continue

senior

cruel

abundance, plenty gentleman to take off water small first early to cry active, busy to follow to teach to arrive, to enter right to borrow more to forbid to stand death dark, heavy to hate solid big, large much to die short to find, to win winner quiet to hate

lovely low to lower bad luck good luck M major male man many marriage married to marry master maximum mean to melt men to mend mess midnight minimum minor to miss moderate modern monarchy moon more morning mountain much N narrow nasty native natural near negative nephew never new nice niece night no nobody

terrible high to raise good luck bad luck

minor female woman few, some divorce divorced, single to divorce servant minimum generous to freeze women to break order noon maximum major to hit, to catch extreme ancient, old republic sun less evening valley little

broad, wide nice, pleasant foreigner, stranger artificial distant, far affirmative niece always ancient, old awful, nasty nephew day yes everybody

noisy noon none of normal north not yet nothing to notice now O occasionally occupied odd off often old on to open open opponent opposite order ordinary other out outside outskirts over P parents part partial particular to pass past peace to permit to plant plenty pleasant polite poor poverty powerful presence present pretty

quiet, silent midnight al lof strange south already everything to ignore then

frequently vacant even on seldom, sometimes modern, new, young off to close, to shut closed, shut supporter synonym mess special same in inside centre under

children whole total general to fail future, present war to forbid to harvest lack awful rude rich, wealthy wealth weak absence past, future ugly

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private probably professional to protect protection public to pull pupil to push Q question quick quiet R to raise rainy rear to receive to reduce to refuse regret to remember to repair to reply reply republic to rest rich right to rise rough rude rural S sad sadness safe safety salt (the) same satisfaction to satisfy to save to scream security seldom to sell

public certainly amateur to attack attack private to push teacher to pull

answer slow loud, noisy

to lower sunny front to send to increase to agree, to accept satisfaction to forget to damage to ask question dictatorship, monarchy to work poor left, wrong to sink gentle, smooth, soft polite urban

happy happiness dangerous danger sugar different, the other regret to annoy to spend, to waste to whisper danger often to buy

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to send senior to separate serious servant to set free shallow sharp shelter short to shout to shut sick silent silly simple to sink single sister slim slow small smooth soft solid some sometimes son soul sour south special spring to start start to stop to stand strange stranger strict strong student stupid suburb to succeed success to subtract

to receive, to save junior to connect, to unite funny master to arrest deep blunt exposure long, tall to whisper to open healthy noisy intelligent complicated to rise married brother fat fast, quick big, large, tall rough hard, rough liquid many often daughter body sweet north general, ordinary autumn to stop finish, end, stop to start, to go to lie normal native gentle weak teacher clever, intelligent centre to fail failure to add

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sugar summer sun sunny supporter to suspect sweet synonym T to take to take off tall to teach teacher then terrible there thick thin thirsty to throw tight tiny together tomorrow top total town tragedy true to trust U ugliness ugly under to unite unity up upstairs urban useful useless V vacant valley vertical

salt winter moon cloudy, rainy opponent to trust bitter, sour opposite

to give to land small, short to learn pupil, student now lovely here thin thick, fat hungry to catch loose huge apart yesterday bottom partial village comedy false to suspect

beauty beautiful, handsome (boys), pretty (girls) over to divide, to separate division down downstairs rural useless useful

occupied mountain horizontal

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victory village violent visitor voluntary vowel W war warm to waste water weak wealth wealthy wedding well west wet to whisper white whole wide wife to win winner winter to work woman women worse worst wrong Y yes yesterday young

defeat town gentle host compulsory consonant

peace cool to save land powerful, strong poverty poor divorce ill east dry to scream, to shout black part narrow husband to lose loser summer to rest man men better best correct, right

no tomorrow old

Synonyms Here you will find a table of words and their synonyms. We've only listed typical synonyms. We recommend using a good dictionary when looking for synonyms.

Word A about abstract to accomplish to accumulate to administer

Synonym

approximately summary to achieve to build up to manage

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to admit almost animated to annoy to answer anyway apparent to appear applicable appreciable ardour arise aromatic to arrive artful association to assure attractive away awful B backbone backside bad (not good) ballot to bear on sth. to beat becoming to begin to behave believable belly bendy beneficiant beneficial bid bizarre blameless bloodbath bloodless branch brave to bring sth. back to bring sth. on to bring sb. up brow bum

to confess nearly lively to irritate, to bother to reply besides obvious to seem relevant considerable passion occur fragrant to reach crafty organization to guarantee appealing absent terrible

spine behind, bottom poor, naughty poll to affect to defeat fitting to start to act plausible stomach flexible generous favourable tender weird innocent massacre cold department courageous to reintroduce to cause to raise forehead backside, behind, bottom

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business busy (telephone) C candy to categorize to categorise (BE) charter cheesy chiefly choosy to chop chorus citation to cite class clerk clever to close coiffure to collapse to collect comfort comic commencement complete completely concord to condemn confederate to confine conflict to conform to confuse to connect considerate constancy constant constitution construction (lit.) to consult contemporary continuous contrary convention to convey to cope correct

commerce, trade engaged

sweet to classify constitution corny, tacky mainly picky to cut refrain quotation to quote lesson, course receptionist intelligent to shut hairstyle to break down to gather consolation comedian graduation total totally harmony to sentence accomplice to restrict clash to comply to mix up to associate, to put through (telephone) thoughtful fidelity fixed structure interpretation to refer to modern continual opposite conference to communicate to manage right

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couch crook crusade cube curative curler cussed D dash daybreak deceptive decontrol dedicated to deduce defective deliberate deliberately delicate to demostrate to denationalize to denationalise (BE) denims to denote to deprave depraved to desert deserted destiny detached devil dicy to differentiate to diminish disadvantaged disagreeable to disappear disaster to disclaim to disclose discount disgrace domesticate dossier dubious dull (person) E eager

sofa criminal campaign dice healing roller stubborn

sprint dawn misleading deregulate committed to infer faulty planned intentionally fragile to protest to privatize jeans to indicate, to represent to corrupt wicked, evil to abandon abandoned fate indifferent satan risky to distinguish to decrease deprived unpleasant to vanish catastrophe to deny to reveal reduction shame cultivate file doubtful stupid

keen

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earth ecocnomic egocentric to elevate to emphasise to emphasize to encounter enormous to enquire equity especially essential to establish to evaluate everlasting exactly except to expire to explode extra F to fabricate famend fanatic fantastic to float fool foolish forehead to foretell formerly fortunate foxy foyer fragrance French dressing to function Word G garbage garbage can (AE) gay to glitter to grab grasping gratis gratuity

soil profitable selfish to raise, to promote to stress to come across huge, immense to investigate fairness particularly fundamental to set up to assess eternal precisely apart from to run out to blow up additional

to manufacture renowned enthusiast great, brilliant to drift idiot silly brow to predict previously lucky cunning lobby perfume vinaigrette to operate Synonym

rubbish trashcan (AE) homosexual to sparkle to seize greedy free of charge tip

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gravestone to grouse gut H hall to hand sth. out handsome hang-out happily hard hashish to hawk to hazard hearsay hermetic highbrow hint hole home homicide housebreaking hunger to hurry hypothesis I idler if to ignore illiberal to illuminate to illustrate to imagine to imitate immediate immobile immoderate immodest to impact impartial impasse impassive to impeach impediment imperative impolite incidentally

headstone to grumble intestine

corridor to distibute good-looking haunt fortunately tough cannabis to peddle to endanger rumour airtight intellectual trace, tip gap domestic murder burglary starvation to rush speculation

loafer whether to disregard intolerant to clarify; to light up to demonstrate to suppose, to assume to mimic instant motionless excessive conceited to affect neutral deadlock emotionless to question obstacle vital rude by the way

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inconsiderate indisputable infamous infantile to infect inflexible inflow informal infrequent inheritor innocent insolvent to inspect instinct instructions insufferable insufficient insupportable insurgent intellectual to intend to intensify interplay inventory invoice to ivolve isolated J jealous joy K knowingly L lacking last leading to learn legitimate lethal liveable livid loopy lousy lucid Word M mackintosh

thoughtless indeniable notorious childish to contaminate rigid influx casual rare heir harmless bancrupt to examine intuition directions unbearable inadequate intolerable rebel mental to mean to heighten interaction stock bill to entail loney

envious delight

deliberately

missing final main to memorize valid, lega deadly habitable furious crazy awful clear Synonym

waterproof coat

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madness magican magistrate to magnify to maintain manmade mannequin material matters maybe in the meantime measure meeting mendacity merciless middleman midway to migrate mild to mimic mind mindless to minimize to mirror to misconceive miserable misery misread missing mistrust mo (AE) moderately modern more and more moreover movie murderer N naked nameless napkin to narrate a narrative a native to near necessary nightfall

insanity conjuror Justice of the Peace to exaggerate to preserve artifical model fabric things perhaps, possibly meanwhile degree assembly lying cruel intermediary halfway emigrate gentle to imitate intellect senseless to play down to reflect to misunderstand depressing distress misinterpret lost distrust moment reasonably contemporary increasingly in addition film assassin

bare anonymous serviette to relate a story a local to approach essential dusk

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nobility to nominate non-stop noon noted to notify notwithstanding nugatory numerous O obdurate object obligatory oblique omnipotent obsolete off-season to operate organic ornament outside to overhaul to overlook overseas to oversee P painting paper money particular passable pattern peaceable perception phantasm pocket book poisonous possibility post-mortem practically praise precedence precept precis pressing previous priority prompt

the Aristocracy to appoint continuous midday famous to inform however worthless many

stubborn thing compulsory indirect all-powerful out of date low season to function biological decoration external to overtake to miss abroad to supervise

portray notes specific satisfactory sample peaceful insight illusion notebook toxic opportunity autopsy virtually compliment priority principle summary urgent preceding precedence immediate

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prosperous to provide provided to put sth. back Q to quake quite R reasonable to receive refrain reliable religious remainder remark reminiscence remorse remoted removable to renew to renounce repute to respond revolting rubbish rude to rue Word S sacristy satisfied scarcity scrumptious second to select selection self-assured signal significant silly sincere skull soiled spotlight stable steady stupid

affluent to supply if to postpone

to tremble fairly

fair to get chorus dependable devout the rest comment memory regret isolated detachable to resume to give up reputation to reply disgusting nonsense impolite to regret Synonym

vestry convinced shortage delicious moment to choose choice confident sign meaningful foolish honest cranium dirty highlight steady regular silly

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substantially suggest sundown sunrise sure surroundings to survive to symbolize T tailored temper terror testament today torpid touchdown touchy to transform transitority transparent trustworthy twister twosome U ultimate uncared for uncommon uncooked undeniable understandable unforeseen unfortunate unhurt uninjured unlawful unmarried unstated untimely untrue unusual unvoiced uprising usually V vacancy to vacuum vague

considerably propose sunset dawn certain environment to outlive to represent

tailor-made mood terrorism testomony nowadays lethargic landing sensitive to convert temporary obvious reliable tornado pair

final neglected unusual raw indisputable comprehensible unexpected unlucky unharmed unhurt illegal single unspoken premature unfaithful strange voiceless rebellion generally,normally

emptiness to hoover indistinct

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vain valueless to vanquish to vary vast virtue to visualize W warrantly well mannered well timed winery to withstand Z zenith

useless worthless to conquer to differ huge advantage to imagine

guarantee polite timely vineyard to resist

peak

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