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List of antonyms from "pessimistic" to antonyms from "petrifaction"
Discover our 207 antonyms available for the terms "pestered, pet, petition, pestilent/pestilential, peter" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.
- Pessimistic (10 antonyms)
- Pessimistically (3 antonyms)
- Pest (12 antonyms)
- Pester (13 antonyms)
- Pestered (13 antonyms)
- Pesterer (15 antonyms)
- Pestering (3 antonyms)
- Pestilence (2 antonyms)
- Pestilent/pestilential (5 antonyms)
- Pestle (11 antonyms)
- Pests (12 antonyms)
- Pet (8 antonyms)
- Pet project (23 antonyms)
- Pet topic (7 antonyms)
- Peter (17 antonyms)
- Peter out (5 antonyms)
- Petered out (11 antonyms)
- Petering out (5 antonyms)
- Petering outs (10 antonyms)
- Petiole (1 antonym)
- Petite (8 antonyms)
- Petition (3 antonyms)
- Petitioned (3 antonyms)
- Petrifaction (7 antonyms)
Definition of the day : « peter out »
- verb dwindle, decrease
- I should be sorry to see the poem "peter out," or "soak in."
- Extract from : « The Letters of Ambrose Bierce » by Ambrose Bierce
- She's a rich one, and bein' so rich at the start she'll peter out fast, I take it.
- Extract from : « Overland Red » by Henry Herbert Knibbs
- "Going to peter out I reckon," Abe answered with a sorrowful look.
- Extract from : « A Man for the Ages » by Irving Bacheller
- Even rejoicings can get overfed and peter out into ginger tea.
- Extract from : « Rose of Old Harpeth » by Maria Thompson Daviess
- They might, indeed, "peter out" as the expression is, but it did not seem likely.
- Extract from : « Do and Dare » by Horatio Alger, Jr.
- I suspicioned he'd peter out when Pap Spooner died, but he fooled us the worst kind.
- Extract from : « Bunch Grass » by Horace Annesley Vachell
- I wouldn't be a whole lot surprised if they give us an awful fight before they peter out.
- Extract from : « Hopalong Cassidy » by Clarence E. Mulford
- Before Christmas, though, she began to peter out 'n' git slack-twisted.
- Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Then all I hope is the storm will peter out before dawn, so we can start for the river right away.
- Extract from : « The Pioneer Boys of the Columbia » by Harrison Adams
- You've had water three times to our once, and yet you go to work and peter out with Chuckwalla Tanks only five miles away.
- Extract from : « The Long Chance » by Peter B. Kyne