Antonyms for buy
baɪbuy

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1. buyverb

   Antonyms:
   sale

2. buyverb

   Antonyms:
   sell, vend

   Synonyms:
   purchase

3. buyverb

   Antonyms:
   pitch, disbelieve, reject

   Synonyms:
   accept, take on, believe, swallow

4. buyverb

   Synonyms:
   make a buy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. buy

   Buy and purchase are close synonyms, signifying to obtain or secure as one's own by paying or promising to pay a price; in numerous cases the two words are freely interchangeable, but with the difference usually found between words of Saxon and those of French or Latin origin. The Saxon buy is used for all the homely and petty concerns of common life, the French purchase is often restricted to transactions of more dignity; yet the Saxon word buy is commonly more emphatic, and in the higher ranges of thought appeals more strongly to the feelings. One may either buy or purchase fame, favor, honor, pleasure, etc., but when our feelings are stirred we speak of victory or freedom as dearly bought. "Buy the truth, and sell it not" (Prov. xxiii, 23) would be greatly weakened by the rendering "Purchase the truth, and do not dispose of it." Compare BUSINESS; GET; PRICE; SALE.

   Antonyms:
   barter, dispose of, exchange, put to sale, sell

   Synonyms:
   acquire, bargain for, barter for, get, obtain, procure, purchase, secure

   Preposition:
   Purchase at a price; at a public sale; of or from a person; for cash; with money; on time.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. buy

   Antonyms:
   sell, vend, hawk, retail

   Synonyms:
   purchase, bribe, subsidize, suborn

Matched Categories

1. • Be
   • Believe
   • Commerce
   • Crime
   • Get
   • Pay

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 4 votes

1. bargain, buy, stealverb

   an advantageous purchase

   "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price"

   Antonyms:
   sell

   Synonyms:
   deal, bargain, steal

2. buy, purchaseverb

   obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction

   "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store"

   Antonyms:
   sell

   Synonyms:
   grease one's palms, purchase, corrupt, bribe

3. bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palmsverb

   make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

   "This judge can be bought"

   Antonyms:
   sell

   Synonyms:
   grease one's palms, pervert, spoil, vitiate, deprave, debauch, purchase, subvert, profane, defile, sully, debase, misdirect, demoralise, corrupt, taint, demoralize, cloud, bribe

4. buyverb

   be worth or be capable of buying

   "This sum will buy you a ride on the train"

   Antonyms:
   sell

   Synonyms:
   grease one's palms, purchase, corrupt, bribe

5. buyverb

   acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange

   "She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work"

   Antonyms:
   sell

   Synonyms:
   grease one's palms, purchase, corrupt, bribe

6. buyverb

   accept as true

   "I can't buy this story"

   Antonyms:
   sell

   Synonyms:
   grease one's palms, purchase, corrupt, bribe

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

1. buyverb

   Synonyms:
   purchase

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1. auction

   Submitted by anonymous on November 21, 2019  

How to use buy in a sentence?

1. President Barack Obama:

   Right now, people on the No-Fly list can walk into a store and buy a gun. That is insane. If you're too dangerous to board a plane, you're too dangerous, by definition, to buy a gun, and so I'm calling on Congress to close this loophole, now. We may not be able to prevent every tragedy, but -- at a bare minimum -- we shouldn't be making it so easy for potential terrorists or criminals to get their hands on a gun that they could use against Americans.

2. John Nicholson:

   We will look into this, because we buy enough fuel that you should not have to worry about it.

3. Alex Jahangir:

   The best way to save millions of Tennesseans is to encourage vaccinations, to make them easy and not buy into any rhetoric that vaccinations are problematic, i think the politicization of vaccinations can truly have a really negative impact on Tennesseans and people around the US.

4. Mike Cramer:

   It doesn't bode well for that newspaper continuing. In fact, if they continue and gut the sports department ... I'm not sure why one would bother to buy it at the newsstand or as a business.

5. Jim Warren:

   They stretched and stretched and mortgaged to the hilt to buy the cheapest house in the town with one of the best public school systems.

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