I'm looking for an antonym of the word spoiled.
The sense of spoiled I have in mind is a positive one: "I've become spoiled by these comfy shoes."
I'm looking for a word or short phrase to say: "I've become antispoiled by these horrible shoes and…
I was looking up on the web but the best antonym of fad that I could find was 'standard'. It is close but not quite accurate in my opinion. Any other suggestions? For instance, what would be the most appropriate last word in the following…
Ethymology of "dry run" is explained here: "Where does the phrase "dry run" come from?". What is its antonym?
However I wonder, what is the opposite of "dry run".
I guess it might vary a lot depending on context.
I am starting from programming…
There is an "oligopoly", which is the dominating of the market by a select few businesses. Then there's __, which is when no single business dominates their respective market.
What's that called?
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“Unregister” vs “Deregister”
I'm just wondering what the consensus would be on the antonym of register. The intended use of the word is for a website. Users can register for the site, and should they desire, they can also…
A satellite is an object which orbits another, what it the word for a object which is being orbited?
The moon is a satellite of Earth, the Earth is a __ of the moon?
The dictionary lists these as antonyms, although the definitions of both don't really oppose each other.
I mean a case where the central figure of a story (and possibly simultaneously the narrator) is a black character, a meddler, evil guy with no…
What is a word that means to remove from a holster as opposed to putting something back in a holster? I’ve searched deholster and unholster, each with no results found.
The context:
Customer pays for some service 100$. If he chooses an option X, we charge him 20$ more, so 120$ in total.
As a programmer I want my variables to have meaningful names. How would you call this 20$ in this context?
I consider two words:…
For example, "I have a job" and "I need a job" are opposite statements, but "I have to get a job" and "I need to get a job" are the same. I understand that they are no longer modifying the same words, but it doesn't seem to make sense why the…
On very cold days, someone can say that it's freezing outside. On very hot days of summer, can someone use cooking or any antonym of freezing, if one exists?
The opposite of abstract (adj) is concrete, but what are the opposites of other forms of the word abstract, such as:
abstract (v) - E.g.: We can abstract away the implementation details.
abstraction (n) - E.g.: I will provide an abstraction to…
What is the antonym for "stigmatizing"?
I would like to describe this idea that people will stigmatize or [???] someone based on his conduct. Like saying that he is dishonorable [stigma] or a man of honor [???].
I feel admiring cannot express what I…
The word risk is used to describe a situation in which there are several possible outcomes each entailing a possible loss, and one is not certain as to which of the outcomes will happen. What I want is an opposite of the word risk, which still…
