Antonyms for firmament
ˈfɜr mə məntfir·ma·ment

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1. celestial sphere, sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkinnoun

   the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

   Synonyms:
   sector, domain, sphere of influence, arena, empyrean, sphere, orbit, vault of heaven, celestial sphere, field, welkin, area, heavens

How to use firmament in a sentence?

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

2. Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus:

   Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

3. Sherilyn Connelly:

   I really appreciate and find it fun to watch how he's completely rattling the mainstream Christian firmament, just look at the s**tstorm that erupted when he washed the feet of the Muslim prisoners. ... It's fascinating.

4. Omar Khayyam:

   When morning silvers the dark firmament, Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament? It is to show in dawn?s bright looking-glass How of thy careless life a night is spent.

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