Antonyms for capital
ˈkæp ɪ tlcap·i·tal

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1. capitalnoun

   An uppercase letter.

   Synonyms:
   majuscule, caps

   Antonyms:
   lower-case, minuscule

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1. capital

   The metropolis is the chief city in the commercial, the capital in the political sense. The capital of an American State is rarely its metropolis.

   Synonyms:
   chief city, metropolis, seat of government

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1. capital

   Antonyms:
   inferior, unimportant, subordinate, minor, defective, mean

   Synonyms:
   chief, excellent, important, cardinal, principal, consummate, high

Matched Categories

1. • Assets
   • Book
   • Center
   • Federal Government
   • Seat

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1. capital, working capitalnoun

   assets available for use in the production of further assets

   Antonyms:
   secondary, inferior, lowercase

   Synonyms:
   working capital, chapiter, capital letter, upper-case letter, cap, majuscule, uppercase

2. capitalnoun

   wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

   Antonyms:
   lowercase, secondary, inferior

   Synonyms:
   majuscule, upper-case letter, capital letter, chapiter, cap, working capital, uppercase

3. capitalnoun

   a seat of government

   Antonyms:
   lowercase, secondary, inferior

   Synonyms:
   majuscule, upper-case letter, capital letter, chapiter, cap, working capital, uppercase

4. capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majusculenoun

   one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

   "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"

   Antonyms:
   secondary, inferior, lowercase

   Synonyms:
   working capital, chapiter, capital letter, upper-case letter, cap, majuscule, uppercase

5. capitalnoun

   a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product

   "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia"

   Antonyms:
   inferior, lowercase, secondary

   Synonyms:
   majuscule, upper-case letter, capital letter, chapiter, cap, working capital, uppercase

6. Capital, Washingtonnoun

   the federal government of the United States

   Antonyms:
   lowercase, secondary, inferior

   Synonyms:
   capital of the United States, working capital, chapiter, capital letter, upper-case letter, cap, majuscule, uppercase

7. Das Kapital, Capitalnoun

   a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

   Antonyms:
   inferior, lowercase, secondary

   Synonyms:
   majuscule, upper-case letter, capital letter, chapiter, cap, working capital, uppercase

8. capital, chapiter, capadjective

   the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

   Antonyms:
   inferior, secondary, lowercase

   Synonyms:
   crown, majuscule, jacket, detonator, uppercase, hood, roof, upper-case letter, ceiling, chapiter, capital letter, jacket crown, cap, detonating device, pileus, working capital, crownwork

9. capitaladjective

   first-rate

   "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"

   Antonyms:
   lowercase, secondary, inferior

   Synonyms:
   majuscule, great

10. capitaladjective

    of primary importance

    "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"

    Antonyms:
    secondary, lowercase, inferior

    Synonyms:
    majuscule, great

11. capital, great, majusculeadjective

    uppercase

    "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"

    Antonyms:
    inferior, lowercase, secondary

    Synonyms:
    slap-up, gravid, large(p), cracking, neat, majuscule, great(p), enceinte, swell, expectant, heavy(p), keen, nifty, with child(p), bang-up, smashing, not bad(p), corking, groovy, big(p), great, bully, dandy, peachy, outstanding

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1. capitaladjective

   Synonyms:
   principal, leading, chief, cardinal, foremost, excellent, first-rate

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1. capital

   Synonyms:
   Money

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1. suburb

   areas out of capital city

   dakar's suburbs

   Submitted by jonyavor on December 31, 2019  

How to use capital in a sentence?

1. Getachew Reda:

   We are not party to and will not be part of such a joke, the capital is firmly in the hands of our forces.

2. Sara Rathner:

   If you find suspicious activity on your credit card, banks like Capital One allow you to freeze your card so that purchases can no longer be made, you can do this easily on the Capital One One app or online.

3. Patrick Burke:

   If there's no winner, you will see significant deployments of officers at all levels across the capital, officers will get cancellations of days off, extensions of shifts and full deployments of officers across the city.

4. Daniel Rosenfeld:

   Daniel Rosenfeld, a professor with the Program of Atmospheric Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The capital actually has existential problems right now, already.

5. John Miller:

   The propensity of the violence sometimes boils down to the individual, nothing compares to any past threats ; we have never had Americans fighting Americans on the streets of the nation's capital probably since the Civil War.

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