Ant. Postdate, follow; reflect upon, recall, recollect, remember; despair of, doubt, dread, fear.
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Anticipation. Expectation, prospect, hope, trust, contemplation, abeyance, foreboding, apprehension, presentiment; prescience, prevision, forethought.
Ant. Realization, consummation, despair, enjoyment, surprise, doubt, dread, wonder, fear.
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Antipathy. Repugnance, repulsion, aversion, detestation, abhorrence, hatred, hostility, loathing.
Ant. Attraction, affinity, congeniality, sympathy, harmony.
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Antiquated. Quaint, obsolete, bygone, ancient, archaic, old-fashioned.
Ant. Modern, modish, new, recent, stylish, fashionable, fresh.
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Antiquity. Ancient times, eld, early days; ancients, people of early days; great age; (pl.) relics of ancient days, archeology.
Ant. Modernity; futurity, eventuality, posterity; the present, to-day.
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Anxiety. Perplexity, apprehension, care, concern, solicitude, worry, dread, trouble, foreboding, misgiving, eagerness, diffidence.
Ant. Ease, confidence, contentment, apathy, acquiescence, calmness, nonchalance, assurance.
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Apathy. Stoicism, calmness, composure, lethargy, unconcern, indifference, insensibility, immobility, quietude, phlegm, stillness.
Ant. Fury, frenzy, susceptibility, sensitiveness, anxiety, excitement, agitation, feeling, passion, vehemence, emotion.
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Ape, v. Mimic, imitate, counterfeit, copy, affect, personate, represent.
Ant. Vary, modify, change.
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Aperture. Opening, hole, gap, rift, chasm, loophole, orifice, cleft.
Ant. Closure, blank wall; seclusion, imperviousness.
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Apex. Acme, vertex, pinnacle, summit.
Ant. Base, nadir, foot, root.
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Aphorism. Adage, maxim, proverb, saying, dictum, apothegm, saw.
Ant. Lecture, disquisition, discourse, sermon.
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Apiece. Each, individually, severally, distributively, separately.
Ant. Together, collectively, synthetically, in the aggregate.
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Apocalyptic. In or from “The Revelation of St. John the Divine”; prophetic, mystical, mysterious; manifesting, revealing, unveiling.
Ant. Concealing, obscuring, shrouding, eclipsing.
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Apocryphal. Unauthentic, uncanonical, legendary, fictitious, false, equivocal, doubtful, spurious.
Ant. Palpable, authorized, accepted, authentic, genuine, current, verified, attested.
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Apology. Plea, excuse, defense, confession, acknowledgment, justification, vindication, explanation, extenuation.