Antonyms for pause
pɔzpause

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pause

   Strains of music may gradually or suddenly cease. A man quits work on the instant; he may discontinue a practise gradually; he quits suddenly and completely; he stops short in what he may or may not resume; he pauses in what he will probably resume. What intermits or is intermitted returns again, as a fever that intermits. Compare ABANDON; DIE; END; REST.

   Antonyms:
   begin, commence, enter upon, inaugurate, initiate, institute, originate, set about, set going, set in operation, set on foot, start

   Synonyms:
   abstain, bring to an end, cease, come to an end, conclude, desist, discontinue, end, end, finish, give over, intermit, leave off, quit, refrain, stop, terminate

   Preposition:
   Cease from anger.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. pausenoun

   Antonyms:
   continuance, advancement, perseverance

   Synonyms:
   stop, cessation, suspension, halt, intermission, rest

2. pauseverb

   Antonyms:
   continue, proceed, advance, persist, persevere

   Synonyms:
   cease, suspend, intermit, forbear, stay, wait, hesitate, demur, stop, desist

Matched Categories

1. • Delay
   • Interrupt

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspensionnoun

   a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

   Synonyms:
   prison-breaking, gap, jailbreak, respite, happy chance, interruption, rift, intermission, severance, gaolbreak, falling out, hanging, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, faulting, breakout, geological fault, break, good luck, breaking, disruption, reprieve, open frame, abatement, break of serve, hiatus, breach, breakage, abeyance, suspension system, fault, shift, fracture, time out, temporary removal, rupture, dangling

2. pauseverb

   temporary inactivity

   Synonyms:
   intermission, interruption, suspension, break

3. hesitate, pauseverb

   interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing

   "The speaker paused"

   Synonyms:
   waver, break, intermit, hesitate, waffle

4. pause, intermit, breakverb

   cease an action temporarily

   "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch"

   Synonyms:
   demote, weaken, kick downstairs, cave in, collapse, let on, break-dance, split up, interrupt, offend, reveal, die, disclose, soften, expose, fail, smash, crack, wear out, hesitate, get around, go bad, break up, recrudesce, intermit, break away, split, unwrap, come apart, bankrupt, ruin, give, dampen, give away, get out, break off, separate, fall apart, break out, fall in, give out, go, founder, break in, bust, damp, break dance, stop, divulge, breach, check, snap off, transgress, violate, erupt, fracture, bring out, break down, discontinue, give way, conk out, better, part, relegate, burst, break, bump, infract, go against, discover, develop, wear, let out

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pausenoun

   Synonyms:
   intermission, suspension, break, hesitation, break, cæsura

2. pauseverb

   Synonyms:
   stop, hesitate, desist, waver, intermit

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. continue

   continued is the opposite of paused

   i continued the test

   Submitted by anonymous on October 7, 2019  

How to use pause in a sentence?

1. The Senate:

   The Republican pause is a riverboat gamble where American workers will in all likelihood pay the cost of Republican inaction with their homes, their families, their livelihoods.

2. Albert Einstein:

   He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

3. Noah Phillips:

   Some stakeholders are pushing for the FTC itself to address non-competes through a rule-making, we heard a little less however about the legal basis for doing so. This is a real issue that gives me, someone who is concerned about non-competes, pause.

4. Brad Bechtel:

   Will the Fed react negatively to a 300k print? Likely not, with the momentum on taper already really high the Fed will have a hard time making an about face after a small miss on what has been a very volatile series, if we were to see something more extreme like a negative NFP print for example, then we could have a different story and the Fed may be forced to at least pause.

5. Adam Sarhan:

   Investors are looking for clarity on two major catalysts - earnings season and the Federal Reserve, it's normal for the market to pause before a major level of resistance like 2,134, move sideways for a few days, even a few weeks and then blast off again.

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