Antonyms for Remain
rɪˈmeɪnre·main

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 5 votes

1. remain

   To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

   Antonyms:
   abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

   Synonyms:
   abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, confront, continue, dwell, endure, expect, inhabit, live, lodge, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watch

   Preposition:
   Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. remain

   Antonyms:
   fly, vanish, remove, depart, speed, hasten, press, flit, disappear, pass

   Synonyms:
   stay, continue, wait, stop, tarry, halt, sojourn, rest, dwell, abide, last, endure, accrue, survive

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. stay, remain, restverb

   stay the same; remain in a certain state

   "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"

   Synonyms:
   breathe, quell, delay, bide, stick, pillow, stay, repose, last out, perch, ride out, persist, catch one's breath, rest, appease, lie, remain, take a breather, reside, stick around, abide, stay on, stay put, outride, continue, detain, roost

2. stay, stay on, continue, remainverb

   continue in a place, position, or situation

   "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"

   Synonyms:
   go along, keep on, quell, delay, bide, stick, go on, stay, carry on, keep, cover, last out, ride out, persist, persist in, go forward, rest, appease, bear on, extend, remain, proceed, retain, stick around, abide, stay on, stay put, uphold, preserve, outride, continue, detain

3. remainverb

   be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.

   "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

   Synonyms:
   continue, persist, rest, stay on, stay

4. persist, remain, stayverb

   stay behind

   "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"

   Synonyms:
   hang on, last out, delay, stay on, stick, quell, stay, die hard, hang in, ride out, persist, hold on, rest, appease, prevail, persevere, bide, run, stick around, abide, endure, stay put, remain, outride, continue, detain

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. remainverb

   Synonyms:
   stay

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. alter

   to change not to remain the same.

   i will alter the speech.

   Submitted by rinat on June 11, 2017  

How to use Remain in a sentence?

1. Eric Cantona:

   He wants to be FIFA president, Sepp Blatter wants to remain it. Sepp Blatter has started to say,' Qatar, it's true it's a bad idea, but it was Platini's idea,'.

2. Steven Choi:

   People need to understand, though, that a typical adult patient normally stays in the ICU only for three to four days, what we're seeing in Covid-19 patients in Asia, Italy and the US is that when patients do end up being ill enough to be admitted to the ICU, they need to be intubated and remain on a ventilator for two to three weeks, which increases the demands for ICU beds and ventilators dramatically.

3. Jailson Correia:

   We are just getting a glimpse of the dimension of a problem likely to remain with us for years to come.

4. Erich Fromm:

   In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

5. Dejan Stojanovic:

   We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

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