Antonyms for postpone
poʊstˈpoʊn, poʊs-post·pone

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1. postponeverb

   Antonyms:
   advance, prepone, hasten

   Synonyms:
   suspend, delay, adjourn, defer, put on ice, put off

2. postponeverb

   To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.

   Synonyms:
   defer, suspend, delay, adjourn, put off, put on ice

   Antonyms:
   advance, hasten, prepone

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1. postpone

   To protract is to cause to occupy a longer time than is usual, expected, or desirable. We defer a negotiation which we are slow to enter upon; we protract a negotiation which we are slow to conclude; delay may be used of any stage in the proceedings; we may delay a person as well as an action, but defer and protract are not used of persons. Elongate is not used of actions or abstractions, but only of material objects or extension in space; protract is very rarely used of concrete objects or extension in space; we elongate a line, protract a discussion. Protract has usually an unfavorable sense, implying that the matter referred to is already unduly long, or would be so if longer continued; continue is neutral, applying equally to the desirable or the undesirable. Postpone implies a definite intention to resume, as defer also does, though less decidedly; both are often used with some definite limitation of time; as, to postpone till, until, or to a certain day or hour. One may defer, delay, or postpone a matter intelligently and for good reason; he procrastinates through indolence and irresolution. Compare HINDER.

   Antonyms:
   abbreviate, abridge, conclude, contract, curtail, hasten, hurry, limit, reduce, shorten

   Synonyms:
   continue, defer, delay, draw out, elongate, extend, lengthen, procrastinate, prolong, protract

   Preposition:
   To protract a speech by verbosity, through an unreasonable time, to, till, or until a late hour.

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1. postpone

   Antonyms:
   expedite, despatch, accelerate

   Synonyms:
   defer, delay, prorogue, procrastinate

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1. postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put offverb

   hold back to a later time

   "let's postpone the exam"

   Synonyms:
   put back, put over, elude, circumvent, set back, turn off, confuse, sidestep, dishearten, remand, give in, remit, parry, dodge, bow, send back, tabulate, accede, flurry, prorogue, hedge, put off, evade, defer, tabularise, table, tabularize, carry over, duck, slacken, shelve, hold over, disconcert, knock back, get across, fudge, submit, skirt

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1. postponeverb

   Synonyms:
   defer, delay, put off, procrastinate, adjourn, prorogue

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1. advance

   Submitted by anonymous on June 18, 2020  

2. prepone

   decision to do something later, after the scheduled time.

   the competition is postponed because one of the student's project is destroyed. now, it will be held on tuesday.

   Submitted by anonymous on August 4, 2020  

How to use postpone in a sentence?

1. John F. Kennedy, Rice University speech on September 12, 1962:

   We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!

2. Henry Walke:

   CDC recommends that the best way to protect yourself and others is to postpone travel and stay home.

3. Nancy Pelosi:

   People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness; he does not, he can postpone, he can delay, but he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.

4. Carlos Curbelo:

   A lot of members in leadership just want to postpone the inevitable.

5. Heng Swee Keat:

   We have received feedback that Covid-19 has caused some aspiring parents to postpone their parenthood plans, this is fully understandable, especially when they face uncertainty with their income.

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