What are some opposite words for foil?
Antonyms for foil
fɔɪlfoil
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term foil.
Wiktionary
foil1
To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
Synonyms:
spoor, thwart, scupper, put the kibosh onfoil1
Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
Synonyms:
aluminium foil, silver foil, tin foil, silver paper
English Synonyms and Antonyms
foil
To hinder is to keep from action, progress, motion, or growth, or to make such action, progress, motion, or growth later in beginning or completion than it would otherwise have been. An action is prevented by anything that comes in before it to make it impossible; it is hindered by anything that keeps it from either beginning or ending so soon as it otherwise would, or as expected or intended. It is more common, however, to say that the start is delayed, the progress hindered. An action that is hindered does not take place at the appointed or appropriate time; that which is prevented does not take place at all; to hinder a thing long enough may amount to preventing it. A railroad-train may be hindered by a snow-storm from arriving on time; it may by special order be prevented from starting. To retard is simply to make slow by any means whatever. To obstruct is to hinder, or possibly to prevent advance or passage by putting something in the way; to oppose or resist is to hinder, or possibly to prevent by directly contrary or hostile action, resist being the stronger term and having more suggestion of physical force; obstructed roads hinder the march of an enemy, tho there may be no force strong enough to oppose it; one opposes a measure, a motion, an amendment, or the like; it is a criminal offense to resist an officer in the discharge of his duty; the physical system may resist the attack of disease or the action of a remedy. Compare CONQUER; IMPEDIMENT; OBSTRUCT.
See synonyms for QUICKEN.
Synonyms:
baffle, balk, bar, block, check, clog, counteract, delay, embarrass, encumber, frustrate, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, obstruct, oppose, prevent, resist, retard, stay, stop, thwartPreposition:
Hinder one in his progress; from acting promptly; by opposition.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
foilnoun
Antonyms:
eclipse, outshining, extinction, overshadowingSynonyms:
set-off, background, contrast, enhancement, setting, elucidation
Princeton's WordNet
foilnoun
a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
"the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
Synonyms:
enhancer, hydrofoil, transparencyfoil, enhancernoun
anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
"pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
Synonyms:
enhancer, hydrofoil, transparencyhydrofoil, foilnoun
a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through
"the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils"
Synonyms:
enhancer, hydrofoil, hydroplane, transparencyfoil, transparencynoun
picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
Synonyms:
enhancer, transparence, hydrofoil, transparentness, transparencyfoilverb
a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
Synonyms:
enhancer, hydrofoil, transparencyfoilverb
enhance by contrast
"In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"
Synonyms:
cross, frustrate, spoil, bilk, baffle, thwart, scotchthwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilkverb
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
Synonyms:
vitiate, mar, sweep, dumbfound, plunder, scupper, mystify, cut through, pamper, flub, span, dun, rape, crucify, baby, regulate, bedevil, itch, screw up, ball up, indulge, interbreed, stick, cut across, corrupt, elude, get over, deflower, spoil, puzzle, gravel, violate, beat, mollycoddle, bungle, intersect, bollocks up, fumble, evade, rag, blow, bollix, torment, amaze, bewilder, coddle, cosset, frustrate, peril, scotch, featherbed, crossbreed, cross, get, louse up, perplex, botch up, bodge, traverse, bobble, baffle, muff, bollocks, pass over, pose, fluff, vex, mishandle, endanger, foul up, stupefy, flummox, track, hybridize, cover, despoil, muck up, bumble, mess up, impair, bollix up, botch, thwart, bilk, get across, expose, go bad, hybridise, cocker, nonplusfoilverb
cover or back with foil
"foil mirrors"
Synonyms:
cross, frustrate, spoil, bilk, baffle, thwart, scotch
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
foilverb
Synonyms:
baffle, frustrate, thwart, circumvent
How to use foil in a sentence?
If Joe Biden positions himself as the political insider from yesteryear who says big ideas like universal childcare, student debt relief and a wealth tax on ultra-millionaires are not possible, he would be an easy foil.
We've really gone for it in a major way but I'm absolutely certain that's the right approach, these boats now foil out of the water. There's very little in the water. It's about aerodynamics, it's about control systems, hydraulic systems and the automotive industry obviously lead the way.
D.O.I. is right, employees are supposed to use their government email for government work. That’s always been the protocol and we remind City Hall and agency staff of that frequently. We consider personal email and documents in someone’s personal possession subject to FOIL when they relate to government business.
Curse you Sonic! Not only do you foil my plans but you foil my speeches too. I work hard on them!
The creation of different groups ... is the last conspiracy of the invaders for continuation of the American proxy war in Afghanistan, god willing, the Afghan Muslim people will, through their strengthening of unity, foil this conspiracy.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#113767 | overshadowing |
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