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Antonyms for NEXT
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Wiktionary1.0 / 3 votes

  1. nextadjective

    Antonyms:
    previously, previous

  2. nextadverb

    The one that follows after this one.

    Next, please, don't hold up the queue!

    Antonyms:
    previous, previously

  3. nextadjective

    Being closer to the present location than all other items.

    The party is next Tuesday; that is, not this Tuesday, but nine days from now.

    Antonyms:
    previously, previous

  4. nextadjective

    The next week is full.

    Antonyms:
    previous

  5. nextadjective

    Antonyms:
    last, this

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. next

    Adjacent farms may not be connected; if adjoining, they meet at the boundary-line. Conterminous would imply that their dimensions were exactly equal on the side where they adjoin. Contiguous may be used for either adjacent or adjoining. Abutting refers rather to the end of one building or estate than to the neighborhood of another. Buildings may be adjacent or adjoining that are not attached. Near is a relative word, places being called near upon the railroad which would elsewhere be deemed remote. Neighboring always implies such proximity that the inhabitants may be neighbors. Next views some object as the nearest of several or many; next neighbor implies a neighborhood.

    Antonyms:
    detached, disconnected, disjoined, distant, remote, separate

    Synonyms:
    abutting, adjacent, adjoining, attached, beside, bordering, close, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, near, neighboring, nigh

    Preposition:
    The farm was adjacent to the village.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. following, nextadjective

    immediately following in time or order

    "the following day"; "next in line"; "the next president"; "the next item on the list"

    Antonyms:
    outgoing, preceding(a), distant

    Synonyms:
    side by side(p), next, undermentioned, following, succeeding(a), following(a), future(a), adjacent

  2. adjacent, next, side by side(p)adjective

    nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space

    "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side"

    Antonyms:
    outgoing, preceding(a), distant

  3. future(a), next, succeeding(a)adverb

    (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving

    "our next president"

    Antonyms:
    preceding(a), distant, outgoing

  4. nextadverb

    at the time or occasion immediately following

    "next the doctor examined his back"

    Antonyms:
    outgoing, preceding(a), distant

How to use NEXT in a sentence?

  1. Olaf Biedermann:

    The Active Wellness seat is Faurecia's vision on the next level of personalized comfort, what we basically do is to monitor respiration rate and heart rate in the seat, and we derive stress and energy level from that. Then, having this kind of wellness being information, we now can offer a closed-loop comfort system; so in case you are stressed you get a relaxation massage, in case you have low energy levels you get a very energizing massage.

  2. Lindsey Graham:

    I appreciate Justice Breyer’s service to our nation, he has always been a scholar and a gentleman whose record on the Supreme Court is solidly in the liberal camp. Justice Breyer has always shown great respect for the institution and his colleagues, and I wish him well in the next phase of his life.

  3. Arne Duncan:

    It started with the pandemic, and then the George Floyd murder, those next six or eight weeks after that were honestly probably the worst six or eight weeks of my life. We had a staff member killed, we had three of our young men killed, we had a 20-month-old baby of one our men (that) was killed, and it was just an extraordinarily dark time.

  4. Rachael Ray:

    In my more than 20 plus years in television, I have had 17 wonderful seasons working in daytime television with Rachael. However I’ve made the decision that’s it’s time for me to move on to the next exciting chapter in my broadcast career, my passions have evolved from the talk show format production and syndication model to a platform unencumbered by the traditional rules of distribution.

  5. Bob Sutton:

    It’s Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, when revolutionaries win, they become the enemy of the next group to rise up. Obama was a radical before he became The Man. Apple is The Man. Microsoft is n’t a good enemy now that the new CEO talks about the importance of open-source software.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#12this
#121next
#126last
#367previous
#1639remote
#2228separate
#2846previously
#9085distant
#10758outgoing
#12087detached
#18891disconnected

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