Antonyms for energy
ˈɛn ər dʒien·er·gy

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1. energy

   Power is the most general term of this group, including every quality, property, or faculty by which any change, effect, or result is, or may be, produced; as, the power of the legislature to enact laws, or of the executive to enforce them; the power of an acid to corrode a metal; the power of a polished surface to reflect light. Ability is nearly coextensive with power, but does not reach the positiveness and vigor that may be included in the meaning of power, ability often implying latent, as distinguished from active power; we speak of an exertion of power, but not of an exertion of ability. Power and ability include capacity, which is power to receive; but ability is often distinguished from capacity, as power that may be manifested in doing, as capacity is in receiving; one may have great capacity for acquiring knowledge, and yet not possess ability to teach. Efficiency is active power to effect a definite result, the power that actually does, as distinguished from that which may do. Competency is equal to the occasion, readiness prompt for the occasion. Faculty is an inherent quality of mind or body; talent, some special mental ability. Dexterity and skill are readiness and facility in action, having a special end; talent is innate, dexterity and skill are largely acquired. Our abilities include our natural capacity, faculties, and talents, with all the dexterity, skill, and readiness that can be acquired. Efficacy is the power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it; as, the efficacy of a drug. Efficiency is effectual agency, competent power; efficiency is applied in mechanics as denoting the ratio of the effect produced to the power expended in producing it; but this word is chiefly used of intelligent agents as denoting the quality that brings all one's power to bear promptly and to the best purpose on the thing to be done. Compare ADDRESS; DEXTERITY; SKILFUL.

   Antonyms:
   awkwardness, dulness, feebleness, helplessness, imbecility, impotence, inability, inaptitude, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, maladroitness, stupidity, unskilfulness, weakness

   Synonyms:
   ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, cleverness, cogency, competency, dexterity, efficacy, efficiency, expertness, faculty, force, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, strength, susceptibility, talent

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1. energy, free energynoun

   (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs

   "energy can take a wide variety of forms"

   Synonyms:
   vim, vitality, vigour, push, zip, muscularity, free energy, vigor, get-up-and-go

2. energy, vigor, vigour, zipnoun

   forceful exertion

   "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip"

   Synonyms:
   postal code, vigor, muscularity, zip, vitality, goose egg, dynamism, postcode, naught, aught, zero, cipher, nix, cypher, nil, vigour, get-up-and-go, slide fastener, null, zip fastener, zipper, heartiness, vim, zilch, zippo, nothing, nada, push, free energy

3. energy, push, get-up-and-gonoun

   enterprising or ambitious drive

   "Europeans often laugh at American energy"

   Synonyms:
   vim, vitality, thrust, vigour, push, zip, muscularity, free energy, vigor, push button, button, pushing, get-up-and-go

4. energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vimnoun

   an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

   "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style"

   Synonyms:
   vigor, muscularity, vim, zip, heftiness, dynamism, muscle, vigour, get-up-and-go, brawn, brawniness, heartiness, sinew, vitality, push, free energy

5. energy, vim, vitalitynoun

   a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

   "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"

   Synonyms:
   vim, vitality, vigour, elan vital, animation, push, zip, muscularity, free energy, vigor, life force, vital force, verve, get-up-and-go

6. energynoun

   any source of usable power

   "the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy"

   Synonyms:
   vim, vitality, vigour, push, zip, muscularity, free energy, vigor, get-up-and-go

7. Department of Energy, Energy Department, Energy, DOEnoun

   the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

   Synonyms:
   vim, vitality, vigour, push, zip, muscularity, free energy, vigor, get-up-and-go

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1. energynoun

   Synonyms:
   power, potency, force, vigor, zeal, strength effectiveness

How to use energy in a sentence?

1. Ernest Rutheford:

   Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

2. Chris Conway:

   Energy prices pushed higher overnight so that sector is also seeing some gains.

3. Isshu Sugawara:

   Japan wants to stay as a front runner by accelerating the development of hydrogen, a key future technology, and taking an initiative to promote global energy transition.

4. David Alperovitz:

   Getting over the border took forever because of the huge U.S. pilgrimage, once there, I was amazed by the energy from the U.S. fans -- young kids in USWT jerseys, strangers high fiving each other, singing, chanting.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   I have doubts about whether we should continue drilling in the Arctic, and I don't think it is a necessary part of our overall clean energy climate change agenda.

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