Antonyms for atom
ˈæt əmatom

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 4 votes

1. atomnoun

   Part, a substance, quantity, or amount that is the result of the division of something greater, is the general word, including all the others of this group. A fragment is the result of breaking, rending, or disruption of some kind, while a piece may be smoothly or evenly separated and have a certain completeness in itself. A piece is often taken for a sample; a fragment scarcely would be. Division and fraction are always regarded as in connection with the total; divisions may be equal or unequal; a fraction is one of several equal parts into which the whole is supposed to be divided. A portion is a part viewed with reference to some one who is to receive it or some special purpose to which it is to be applied; in a restaurant one portion (i. e., the amount designed for one person) is sometimes, by special order, served to two; a share is a part to which one has or may acquire a right in connection with others; an instalment is one of a series of proportionate payments that are to be continued till the entire claim is discharged; a particle is an exceedingly small part. A component, constituent, ingredient, or element is a part of some compound or mixture; an element is necessary to the existence, as a component or constituent is necessary to the completeness of that which it helps to compose; an ingredient may be foreign or accidental. A subdivision is a division of a division. We speak of a segment of a circle. Compare PARTICLE; PORTION.

   Synonyms:
   component, constituent, division, element, fraction, fragment, ingredient, instalment, member, part, part, particle, piece, portion, section, segment, share, subdivision

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. atom

   Antonyms:
   mass, whole, aggregate, lump

   Synonyms:
   molecule, particle, mote, speck, scrap, bit

Matched Categories

1. • Physics
   • Substance

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. atomnoun

   (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element

   Synonyms:
   mote, molecule, speck, corpuscle, particle

2. atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, specknoun

   (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

   Synonyms:
   mote, jot, soupcon, touch, tinge, blood corpuscle, molecule, corpuscle, blood cell, particle, speck, hint, pinch, mite, pinpoint, subatomic particle

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. atomnoun

   Synonyms:
   monad, molecule, particle, bit, iota, grain, scrap, scintilla

How to use atom in a sentence?

1. Sir Arthur Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1:

   I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

2. Persian Mystic Poem:

   Split the atom's heart, and low Within it thou wilt find a sun.

3. Aleister Crowley:

   It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.

4. Anonymous:

   The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door.

5. General Omar Bradley:

   We have grasped the mystery of the atom and we have rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience, our world is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

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