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Antonyms for asses

Grammar : Noun
Spell : as-iz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæs ɪz

Definition of asses

Origin :
  • c.1200, worn-down form of Old English alswa "quite so" (see also), fully established by c.1400. Equivalent to so; any distinction in use is purely idiomatic. Related to German als "as, than," from Middle High German also. Phrase as well "just as much" is recorded from late 15c.; the phrase also can imply "as well as not," "as well as anything else." Interjection of incredulity as if! (i.e. "as if that really could happen") is attested from 1995, an exact duplication of Latin quasi.
  • noun stupid person
Example sentences :
  • How true is it, that "sailors make their money like horses, and spend it like asses!"
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • My mother, who saw that I did not relish the asses' milk, put in a word for me.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • You might as well affirm the existence of mules, and deny that of horses and asses.
  • Extract from : « Apology » by Plato
  • Their dogs and their asses might bear his name, but their own lives and liberty must answer to it.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
  • Only their mules and asses, all hobbled and still saddled, were up and feeding.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
  • Here we find what asses we are, for things go off quite easily, all by themselves.
  • Extract from : « Where Angels Fear to Tread » by E. M. Forster
  • So, then, I am not only to bark at the asses all day, but I am to bay the wolves by night?
  • Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever
  • He cried furiously: "Don't shoot at one another, you asses!"
  • Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
  • Like Saul and his asses, we no longer cared about our craft so long as we escaped.
  • Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Synonyms for asses

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