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List of antonyms from "pleased" to antonyms from "plica"
Discover our 260 antonyms available for the terms "pleasure-unpleasure principle, pleasingly, pleasurably, pleasurable, plebeian" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.
- Pleased (2 antonyms)
- Pleasing (28 antonyms)
- Pleasingly (15 antonyms)
- Pleasurable (2 antonyms)
- Pleasurably (9 antonyms)
- Pleasure (26 antonyms)
- Pleasure principle (1 antonym)
- Pleasure-unpleasure principle (1 antonym)
- Pleasureful (43 antonyms)
- Plebe (9 antonyms)
- Plebeian (12 antonyms)
- Plebeians (5 antonyms)
- Plebian (5 antonyms)
- Pledge oneself (4 antonyms)
- Plenitude (8 antonyms)
- Plentiful (10 antonyms)
- Plentifulness (17 antonyms)
- Plenty (7 antonyms)
- Pleonasm (1 antonym)
- Plethora (7 antonyms)
- Plethoric (31 antonyms)
- Pliable (11 antonyms)
- Pliant (4 antonyms)
- Plica (2 antonyms)
Definition of the day : « pleonasm »
- noun wordiness
- Ignorance of the true meaning of a word often leads to pleonasm.
- Extract from : « The Romance of Words (4th ed.) » by Ernest Weekley
- What is pleonasm in a single sentence is ellipsis in a double one.
- Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
- These are instances of pleonasm in the strictest sense of the term.
- Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
- We have spoken of "true worship;" the expression is a pleonasm.
- Extract from : « The Articles of Faith » by James E. Talmage
- The pleonasm is explained by the divergence of French and ME.
- Extract from : « Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose » by Various
- But the above examples are arranged either by Pleonasm or by some such like artifice.
- Extract from : « Essays and Miscellanies » by Plutarch
- What is pleonasm in a single sentence, is ellipsis in a double one.
- Extract from : « The English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
- "He is so nervous that he is committing a pleonasm," said Felicien in an aside to Lousteau.
- Extract from : « A Distinguished Provincial at Paris » by Honore de Balzac
- Nothing is gained in strength nor precision by this kind of pleonasm.
- Extract from : « Write It Right » by Ambrose Bierce
- Let the word come after the gesture and there will be no pleonasm.
- Extract from : « Delsarte System of Oratory » by Various