Antonyms for dodge
dɒdʒdodge

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1. dodgeverb

   derived from a diminutive of Roger. (Typically found in the United States.)

   He dodged traffic crossing the street.

   Synonyms:
   duck, skirt, fudge, evade

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1. dodge

   A contrivance or device may be either good or bad. A cheat is a mean advantage in a bargain; a fraud, any form of covert robbery or injury. Imposture is a deceitful contrivance for securing charity, credit, or consideration. A stratagem or maneuver may be of the good against the bad, as it were a skilful movement of war. A wile is usually but not necessarily evil.

   E'en children followed with endearing wile.

   Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 184.

   A trick is often low, injurious, and malicious; we say a mean trick; the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning. A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism; the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. Compare FRAUD.

   Antonyms:
   artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth

   Synonyms:
   art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, invention, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile

Matched Categories

1. • Evasion
   • Move

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. contrivance, stratagem, dodgenoun

   an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

   "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"

   Synonyms:
   gambit, stratagem, devisal, convenience, scheme, ploy, gismo, widget, dodging, contrivance, gadget, appliance, lash-up, contraption, gizmo

2. dodgenoun

   a quick evasive movement

   Synonyms:
   scheme, contrivance, dodging, stratagem

3. dodge, dodging, schemeverb

   a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

   Synonyms:
   stratagem, avoidance, strategy, scheme, contrivance, system, dodging, escape, outline, evasion, shunning, schema, turning away

4. dodgeverb

   make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid

   "The child dodged the teacher's blow"

   Synonyms:
   parry, circumvent, evade, hedge, elude, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, duck

5. dodgeverb

   move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course

   "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd"

   Synonyms:
   parry, circumvent, evade, hedge, elude, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, duck

6. hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb

   avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

   "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

   Synonyms:
   put over, circumvent, set back, dip, turn off, confuse, sidestep, cook, douse, overreach, beat, surround, dishearten, hold over, hem in, environ, defer, outfox, deflect, parry, remit, fake, duck, border, flurry, prorogue, block, outsmart, hedge, manipulate, put off, evade, falsify, table, misrepresent, postpone, hedge in, shelve, beleaguer, elude, disconcert, ring, wangle, escape, fudge, outwit, besiege, bilk, skirt

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1. dodgenoun

   Synonyms:
   prevarication, trick, artifice, subterfuge, stratagem, evasion, parry, device

2. dodgeverb

   Synonyms:
   duck, evade, parry, prevaricate, equivocate, shift, evade, quibble, parry

How to use dodge in a sentence?

1. Jack Baker:

   Well, you just took it day by day, whatever happens is going to happen, you know, just try to dodge the bullets.

2. Rodney Reese:

   They just treated me like I was a criminal or something, just a simple encounter. A simple encounter. That’s why I tried to dodge it, so I could make it home, I don’t know.

3. Herve Falciani:

   I hope to have the possibility of a right of safe passage first to attend my trial, I am not trying to dodge my responsibility.

4. Steve Vladeck:

   Because the Court of Appeals did not reach the larger question of whether Affordable Care Act must now fall, and instead remanded that to the district court, Supreme Court will face far less pressure to take Affordable Care Act now -- versus waiting until Affordable Care Act comes back after that remand, thus, among other things, today's ruling may allow the justices to dodge -- if they want to, anyway.

5. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach:

   Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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