What are some opposite words for CANT?
Antonyms for CANT
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Antonyms:
must, be able to, cancantcontraction
cannot; is unable to; does not have the ability to
I can't quite get it to work.
Antonyms:
can, be able to, mustcantcontraction
To bevel an edge or corner.
You can't enter the hall without a ticket.
Antonyms:
can, be able to, must
English Synonyms and Antonyms
cant
Pretense (Latin prætendo) primarily signifies the holding something forward as having certain rights or claims, whether truly or falsely; in the good sense, it is now rarely used except with a negative; as, there can be no pretense that this is due; a false pretense implies the possibility of a true pretense; but, alone and unlimited, pretense commonly signifies the offering of something for what it is not. Hypocrisy is the false pretense of moral excellence, either as a cover for actual wrong, or for the sake of the credit and advantage attaching to virtue. Cant (Latin cantus, a song), primarily the singsong iteration of the language of any party, school, or sect, denotes the mechanical and pretentious use of religious phraseology, without corresponding feeling or character; sanctimoniousness is the assumption of a saintly manner without a saintly character. As cant is hypocrisy in utterance, so sanctimoniousness is hypocrisy in appearance, as in looks, tones, etc. Pietism, originally a word of good import, is now chiefly used for an unregulated emotionalism; formalism is an exaggerated devotion to forms, rites, and ceremonies, without corresponding earnestness of heart; sham (identical in origin with shame) is a trick or device that puts one to shame, or that shamefully disappoints expectation or falsifies appearance. Affectation is in matters of intellect, taste, etc., much what hypocrisy is in morals and religion; affectation might be termed petty hypocrisy. Compare DECEPTION.
Antonyms:
candor, frankness, genuineness, honesty, ingenuousness, openness, sincerity, transparency, truth, truthfulnessSynonyms:
affectation, dissimulation, formalism, hypocrisy, pharisaism, pietism, pretense, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham
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Princeton's WordNet
buzzword, cantnoun
stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
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slang, camber, chamfer, patois, bevel, vernacular, argot, bank, pious platitude, lingo, cant, buzzword, jargonbank, cant, cambernoun
a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
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argot, pious platitude, banking company, money box, banking concern, slang, chamfer, lingo, bank building, coin bank, patois, savings bank, vernacular, bevel, camber, jargon, cant, bank, buzzword, depository financial institutionslang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacularnoun
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
"they don't speak our lingo"
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cant, slang term, bevel, patois, slang, slang expression, vernacular, argot, pious platitude, lingo, camber, buzzword, jargon, chamfer, bank, jargooncant, pious platitudenoun
insincere talk about religion or morals
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slang, camber, chamfer, patois, bevel, vernacular, argot, bank, pious platitude, lingo, cant, buzzword, jargonbevel, cant, chamferverb
two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
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slang, bevel, camber, chamfer, patois, bevel square, vernacular, argot, bank, pious platitude, lingo, cant, buzzword, jargoncant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitchverb
heel over
"The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
Synonyms:
set up, pitch, lean, huckster, lurch, wobble, peddle, vend, tip, slope, careen, shift, tilt, hawk, flip, cant over, monger, deliver, cant, incline, weight, angle, sky, toss, slant, gear
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How to use CANT in a sentence?
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.
[S]low thespread, test every contact --whatthey did in South Korea, Japan,where they succeeded.We cant let what happened to Italy happen toAmerica, thats why you are seeingstronger leadership up acrossthe board to say shut it down,slow the spread.
We have absolutely nothing in terms of bonobo fossils, there is one chimp fossil thats been unearthed thats maybe 400,000 years old, but thats basically it for African great apes. By analyzing living apes, we can get information on extinct ape populations that we cant get from ancient DNA, since there are almost no ancient ape fossils.
Its unbelievable, man. I cant put it into words, the defense played the way they did to force it to overtime. The defense gets a pick and Greg makes a 57-yarder to win it. That was good from about 70. Unbelievable.
Even though your family cant be here and they cant hug you and hold you, theyre thinking about you and theyre praying for you.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#34 | can | |
#218 | must | |
#2276 | truth | |
#7071 | cant | |
#9585 | transparency | |
#13655 | honesty | |
#18813 | openness | |
#27844 | sincerity | |
#46855 | candor | |
#50273 | truthfulness | |
#85657 | frankness | |
#97212 | genuineness |
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