Antonyms for underground
ˈʌn dərˈgraʊnd; -ˌgraʊndun·der·ground

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1. undergroundnoun

   Synonyms:
   Tube

2. undergroundnoun

   Below the ground.

   There is an underground tunnel that takes you across the river.

   Synonyms:
   metro, Tube, subterranean, ground, below, subway, métro

3. undergroundadjective

   A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.

   These criminals operate through an underground network.

   Synonyms:
   avant-garde, counter-culture, on the quiet, in secret, clandestinely, resistance, hush-hush, secret, clandestine, hidden

4. undergroundnoun

   A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.

   Synonyms:
   avant-garde, unconventional

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1. underground, resistancenoun

   a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

   Antonyms:
   surface, open, overhead, overt

   Synonyms:
   resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, subway, impedance, resistor, electrical resistance, metro, opposition, subway system, electric resistance, tube

2. metro, tube, underground, subway system, subwayadjective

   an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)

   "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'"

   Antonyms:
   overhead, open, overt, surface

   Synonyms:
   resistance, metro, electron tube, subway, thermionic vacuum tube, pipe, tubing, vacuum tube, tube-shaped structure, thermionic valve, underpass, subway system, thermionic tube, tube

3. belowground, undergroundadjective

   under the level of the ground

   "belowground storage areas"; "underground caverns"

   Antonyms:
   overt, surface, open, overhead

   Synonyms:
   hole-and-corner(a), clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, belowground, hush-hush, undercover, surreptitious, hugger-mugger, secret

4. clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, undergroundadverb

   conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

   "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"

   Antonyms:
   overt, surface, open, overhead

5. undergroundadverb

   in or into hiding or secret operation

   "the organization was driven underground"

   Antonyms:
   overhead, surface, overt, open

6. undergroundadverb

   beneath the surface of the earth

   "water flowing underground"

   Antonyms:
   overt, open, overhead, surface

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1. undergroundadjective

   Synonyms:
   subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, subterrestrial

How to use underground in a sentence?

1. Albert Einstein:

   Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

2. The FDA:

   It just became this dark, dark underground.

3. Fox News:

   The women that we portray in this exhibit, a lot of them had a kind of underground impact, they weren’t on the level [of] Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory or King Oliver. They did influence a lot of people here and those people [left] to do jazz in other places [and] put their influence out there.

4. Magdalena Krzemie:

   Water had very special and symbolic meaning in ancient Mayans beliefs, it was thought to be the medium [or] door to the underground world, [the] world of death.

5. Oliviero Forti:

   By law, they are expelled from the European Union, but after their journey here, most have no means to go back, even if they wanted to, they can't work legally so they support the underground economies. They enter a margin of society in which they can't stay and they can't go. They are the most vulnerable of all the migrants.

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