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Antonyms for Ingest

A tech professional wants a word that means the opposite of ingest, as in ingesting a video. Specifically, he needs something that sounds like it’s worth 200 bucks an hour. Divest, maybe? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Antonyms...

Ruthful

Someone can be ruthless, but can that person be ruthful? Ruthful is indeed a word that derives from an old definition of ruth meaning “the quality of being compassionate.” But unpaired negatives, like ruthless, unkempt, uncouth, or disgruntled, are...

Auto-Antonyms

Cleave, dust, and screen are all words that can mean the opposite of themselves. You can cleave to a belief, meaning to “adhere closely,” but you can also separate things by cleaving them. Words that mean the opposite of themselves go by many...

prospiracy

prospiracy n. a secret plan by a group to do something beneficial. Editorial Note: Rather than originating with a single instance or person, this word is regularly re-coined as the antonym of “conspiracy.” (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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