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Synonyms for REMAIN
rɪˈmeɪnre·main

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.8 / 5 votes

  1. remain

    To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

    Synonyms:
    abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, confront, continue, dwell, endure, expect, inhabit, live, lodge, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watch

    Antonyms:
    abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

    Preposition:
    Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. remain

    Synonyms:
    stay, continue, wait, stop, tarry, halt, sojourn, rest, dwell, abide, last, endure, accrue, survive

    Antonyms:
    fly, vanish, remove, depart, speed, hasten, press, flit, disappear, pass

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 2 votes

  1. stay, remain, restverb

    stay the same; remain in a certain state

    "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"

    Synonyms:
    breathe, quell, delay, bide, stick, pillow, stay, repose, last out, perch, ride out, persist, catch one's breath, rest, appease, lie, remain, take a breather, reside, stick around, abide, stay on, stay put, outride, continue, detain, roost

  2. stay, stay on, continue, remainverb

    continue in a place, position, or situation

    "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"

    Synonyms:
    go along, keep on, quell, delay, bide, stick, go on, stay, carry on, keep, cover, last out, ride out, persist, persist in, go forward, rest, appease, bear on, extend, remain, proceed, retain, stick around, abide, stay on, stay put, uphold, preserve, outride, continue, detain

  3. remainverb

    be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.

    "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

    Synonyms:
    continue, persist, rest, stay on, stay

  4. persist, remain, stayverb

    stay behind

    "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"

    Synonyms:
    hang on, last out, delay, stay on, stick, quell, stay, die hard, hang in, ride out, persist, hold on, rest, appease, prevail, persevere, bide, run, stick around, abide, endure, stay put, remain, outride, continue, detain

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. remainverb

    Synonyms:
    continue, endure, abide, stay, tarry, keep, last

  2. remainverb

    Synonyms:
    be left, be left behind

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. remainverb

    Synonyms:
    stay

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "remain":

    stay, continue, keep, remains, persist, maintain, staying, retain, be, rest, stand, stick, are

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How to use REMAIN in a sentence?

  1. Todd Rosenbluth:

    The fund continues to outperform peers while taking on lower interest rate risk, investors seeking fixed income remain comfortable with the DoubleLine approach that has a long record of success.

  2. Michael Feroli:

    The trend in consumer spending growth still looks very solid, consumers remain the locomotive of the economy.

  3. Gary Bettman:

    While we are hopeful, it is our goal that we will be able to resume play and award the Stanley Cup. We intend to do so within in a timeframe that will enable us to get back to a full calendar for the 2020-21 season, at the same time we remain focused on the safety of our players, coaches, support staff and arena personnel. We will not set dates, chose sites or begin to play until we know it is appropriate and prudent and we are approved to do so.

  4. Andrew Wishart:

    Most of that jump should quickly be reversed once the lockdown ends, but we still expect the unemployment rate to remain elevated over the next few years.

  5. Attorney General William Barr:

    The pandemic is dangerous enough without wrongdoers seeking to profit from public panic and this sort of conduct can not be tolerated, it is essential that the Department of Justice remain vigilant in detecting, investigating, and prosecuting wrongdoing related to the crisis. CORONAVIRUS DOES NOT AFFECT NUCLEAR WEAPONS LAUNCH.


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