Antonyms for Bounty
ˈbaʊn tiboun·ty

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1. bounty

   According to the etymology and original usage, beneficence is the doing well, benevolence the wishing or willing well to others; but benevolence has come to include beneficence, and to displace it. We should not now speak of benevolence which did not help, unless where there was no power to help; even then we should rather say good-will or sympathy. Charity, which originally meant the purest love for God and man (as in 1 Cor. xiii), is now almost universally applied to some form of almsgiving, and is much more limited in meaning than benevolence. Benignity suggests some occult power of blessing, such as was formerly ascribed to the stars; we may say a good man has an air of benignity. Kindness and tenderness are personal; benevolence and charity are general. Kindness extends to all sentient beings, whether men or animals, in prosperity or in distress. Tenderness especially goes out toward the young, feeble, and needy, or even to the dead. Humanity is so much kindness and tenderness toward man or beast as it would be inhuman not to have; we say of some act of care or kindness, "common humanity requires it." Generosity is self-forgetful kindness in disposition or action; it includes much besides giving; as, the generosity of forgiveness. Bounty applies to ample giving, which on a larger scale is expressed by munificence. Liberality indicates broad, genial kindly views, whether manifested in gifts or otherwise. We speak of the bounty of a generous host, the liberality or munificence of the founder of a college, or of the liberality of a theologian toward the holders of conflicting beliefs. Philanthropy applies to wide schemes for human welfare, often, but not always, involving large expenditures in charity or benevolence. Compare MERCY.

   Antonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, churlishness, greediness, harshness, ill-will, illiberality, inhumanity, malevolence, malignity, niggardliness, self-seeking, selfishness, stinginess, unkindness

   Synonyms:
   almsgiving, beneficence, benevolence, benignity, charity, generosity, good-will, humanity, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, liberality, munificence, philanthropy, sympathy, unselfishness

   Preposition:
   Benevolence of, on the part of, or from the wealthy, to or toward the poor.

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1. bounty

   Antonyms:
   illiberality, closeness, hardness, churlishness, stinginess, niggardliness

   Synonyms:
   liberality, bounteousness, benevolence, munificence, donation, gift, generosity, charity, benignity

Matched Categories

1. • Abundance
   • Generosity
   • Government
   • Reward
   • Ship

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 3 votes

1. bounty, premiumnoun

   payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military

   Synonyms:
   agiotage, bounty, premium, bounteousness, agio, amplitude, exchange premium, insurance premium, bountifulness

2. amplitude, bountifulness, bountynoun

   the property of copious abundance

   Synonyms:
   premium, amplitude, bounty, bountifulness, bounteousness

3. bounty, bounteousnessnoun

   generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely

   Synonyms:
   premium, amplitude, bounty, bountifulness, bounteousness

4. Bounty, H.M.S. Bountynoun

   a ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat

   Synonyms:
   premium, amplitude, bountifulness, bounteousness

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1. bountynoun

   Synonyms:
   generosity, liberality, munificence, beneficence, premium, bonus, reward

How to use Bounty in a sentence?

1. Warren Buffett:

   What has happened is that despite this incredible bounty, millions and millions and millions of Americans have been left behind, the game has been stacked in their direction. That is a primary reason... why I am going to be so delighted when Secretary Clinton takes the oath of office.

2. Reginald Bolding:

   It’s a sickening irony that he’s doing this by dangling millions of federally provided funds for COVID-19 relief and forcing school districts to choose between the health and safety of kids and educators, or millions in additional funding that Republicans have withheld for years, with the delta variant running rampant and COVID-19 cases among children on the rise, it’s disgusting to put a bounty on spreading this illness to kids and punishing schools that try to operate safely.

3. Paul Hertz:

   In a sea of stars brimming with new worlds, TESS is casting a wide net and will haul in a bounty of promising planets for further study, this ‘first light’ science image shows the capabilities of TESS’ cameras, and shows that the mission will realize its incredible potential in our search for another Earth.

4. Peggy Mayfield:

   A bail agent can go get the defendant and haul him back to jail, you know it commonly as a bounty hunter. Charitable bail has no authority to make that person go to court.

5. Richard Gisagara:

   They needed to keep it secret. The bounty on his head meant that if it went beyond that small family circle, there would have been a leak.

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