In your daily life, for writing an email, a text, an essay, if you want to avoid repetitions or find the opposite meaning of a word. The words blockage, encumbrance, handicap are antonyms for "help".
The words acknowledge, enjoy, welcome are synonyms for "appreciate".
Antonyms are used to express the opposite of a word. Antonym definitionĪn antonym is a word, adjective, verb or expression whose meaning is opposite to that of a word. This avoids repetitions in a sentence without changing its meaning. Synonyms are other words that mean the same thing.
Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave ThanetĪ synonym is a word, adjective, verb or expression that has the same meaning as another, or almost the same meaning. He gave a wistful glance at his companion's dimly outlined profile. Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola. And he cast a wistful look on the dead horses that lay around them. Extract from : « The Mystery of Murray Davenport » by Robert Neilson Stephens. Turl watched her face, with a softened, wistful, perplexed look on his own. Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole. Again, in spite of the gruffness, I felt that wistful quality in him. Extract from : « Concerning Cats » by Helen M. I look at her for one wistful moment and then turn resolutely to my work. Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle. I did observe that you did cast a wistful eye upon my bookshelf. Extract from : « Gloria and Treeless Street » by Annie Hamilton Donnell. There was a strange note of wistful pleading in the nurse's voice. Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. He put on his spectacles and looked at her with wistful kindness. Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. As we entered the ballroom, her eyes were wistful, searching, yet not expecting to find. 
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. He turned round and saw before him the wistful face of Fanny!.
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