Ant. Favorable, friendly, propitious, fortunate, lucky.

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Adversity. Calamity, affliction, trouble, disaster, woe, distress, suffering.

Ant. Success, prosperity, advancement, good luck.

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Advert to. Consider, notice, remark, heed, attend, refer, allude, mention, touch upon; regard.

Ant. Ignore, pass, drop, overlook, omit.

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Advertent. Mindful, regardful, attentive, watchful, observant, thoughtful, considerate, heedful.

Ant. Thoughtless, heedless, inconsiderate, inattentive.

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Advertise. Announce, publish, proclaim, declare, circulate, noise abroad; offer for sale; inform, notify, apprise; promulgate.

Ant. Suppress, ignore, hush, conceal; mislead, misinform.

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Advice. Counsel, suggestion, admonition, instruction, caution; tidings, intelligence, notice; deliberation, care, forethought; recommendation, exhortation, information.

Ant. Remonstrance, restraint, expostulation, prohibition; deception, delusion.

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Advisable. Judicious, expedient, politic, prudent, desirable, beneficial, profitable; proper, fitting.

Ant. Imprudent, undesirable, inexpedient, improper, detrimental.

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Advocate. Counsel, lawyer, attorney; defender, promoter, friend, patron, supporter, pleader, maintainer.

Ant. Accuser, impugner, gainsayer, adversary, opponent.

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Affable. Open, free, frank, unreserved; accessible, familiar; cordial, social, courteous, polite, obliging, urbane, benign, gracious, mild, well-bred; condescending.

Ant. Distant, unapproachable, inaccessible, haughty, contemptuous, supercilious.

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Affair. Business, concern, function, matter, circumstance, question, subject; event, incident, occurrence, performance; battle, combat, engagement, skirmish, collision, brush, encounter.

Ant. Detail, item, feature, point.

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Affect. Influence, change, transform, modify, alter; concern, interest, touch, move, impress; crave, yearn, desire, like; assume, adopt, feign, pretend; operate, act on; melt, soften, subdue, overcome.

Ant. Shun, repel, repudiate, spurn, dislike, eschew.

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Affectation. Airs, mannerism, pretension, pretense, foppery, display.

Ant. Simplicity, artlessness, naturalness, genuineness.

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Affection. Feeling, passion, attachment, fondness, tenderness, love; propensity, disposition; endearment, devotion, partiality; attribute, quality, characteristic, mark.

Ant. Indifference, repulsion, disaffection, repugnance.

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Affiance. Trust, confidence, homage, reliance, betrothal, fealty, faith, plighting.

Ant. Disloyalty, distrust, treason, suspicion, infidelity.

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Affiliate. Associate, adopt, join, connect, incorporate, annex.

Ant. Sever, transplant, separate, disjoin, dissociate.

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Affinity. Relationship, kin, consanguinity, propinquity; likeness, resemblance, relation, analogy, connection, correspondence; sympathy, attraction.

Ant. Repugnance, discordance, antipathy, antagonism.

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Affirm. Assert, swear, state, declare, maintain, allege, protest, confirm, ratify, approve, endorse, aver, asseverate, assure, avouch, establish.

Ant. Deny, doubt, demur, contradict, negative, gainsay, impugn, oppose, dispute.

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Affirmation. Avowal, declaration, statement, assertion, testimony, deposition, confirmation, ratification, approval, endorsement.

Ant. Doubt, denial, contradiction, disputation, disapproval.

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Affix. Join, annex, attach, fasten, connect to, unite to, append.

Ant. Remove, detach, separate, unfasten.

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Affliction. Adversity, misfortune, grief, sorrow, distress, tribulation, disaster, trial, misery, calamity, pain, anguish, trouble, hardship.

Ant. Consolation, relief, blessing, gratification, pleasure.

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Affluence. Wealth, fortune, riches, opulence, abundance, plenty, profusion.

Ant. Want, scarcity, poverty, penury, lack, indigence.

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Afford. Supply, furnish, contribute, bestow, offer, confer, bear, endure, support, yield, impart, administer.

Ant. Withhold, deny, retain, stint, grudge, withdraw.

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Affray. Quarrel, tussle, scuffle, scrimmage, collision, brawl, disturbance, fight, rumpus, struggle, contest, strife, encounter, feud, tumult.