Antonyms for due
| Grammar : Adj, adv, noun |
| Spell : doo, dyoo |
| Phonetic Transcription : du, dyu |
Definition of due
Origin :- early 14c., "customary, regular;" mid-14c., "owing, payable," from Old French deu, past participle of devoir "to owe," from Latin debere "to owe" (see debt).
- In reference to points of the compass (e.g. due east) it is attested from c.1600, originally nautical, from notion of "fitting, rightful." As an adverb from 1590s; as a noun from early 15c. Prepositional phrase due to (much maligned by grammarians) is from 1897.
- adj unpaid; owing money
- adj appropriate, proper
- adv directly
- noun expected reward
- They've put lots of good weight-carriers off the track before they was due to go.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- All is prepared—the table and the feast— With due appurtenance of clothes and cushions.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Boy, they be not due to you till you be come to years of discretion.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- I don't want to trouble him, but I was bound he shouldn't keep from me what was rightly my due.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- Often enough these innovations were not due to the cleverness of man's brain.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Great credit is also due to the second in command, and to every member of the party.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- I vindicated the good Mrs. Norton with a warmth that was due to her merit.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- He saw he was due to bleed to death and he took a shorter way!
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- So perfectly had their journey been timed that the train was due in a very few minutes.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- It is to the length of these fibers that the tenderness of meat is due.
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Synonyms for due
- be in line for
- becoming
- chargeable
- claim
- collectible
- comeuppance
- coming
- compensation
- condign
- dead
- deserts
- deserved
- direct
- earned
- entitlement
- equitable
- exactly
- expected
- fair
- fit
- fitting
- good
- guerdon
- in arrears
- interest
- IOU
- just
- justified
- mature
- merited
- merits
- need
- not met
- obligatory
- outstanding
- overdue
- owed
- payable
- payment
- perquisite
- prerogative
- privilege
- rate
- receivable
- recompense
- repayment
- reprisal
- requisite
- retaliation
- retribution
- revenge
- rhadamanthine
- right
- rightful
- rights
- satisfaction
- scheduled
- straight
- straightly
- suitable
- title
- to be paid
- undeviatingly
- unliquidated
- unsatisfied
- unsettled
- vengeance
- what is coming to one
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