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Synonyms for afford
əˈfɔrd, əˈfoʊrdaf·ford

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.6 / 9 votes

  1. afford

    Bear is the most general of these words; it is metaphorically to hold up or keep up a burden of care, pain, grief, annoyance, or the like, without sinking, lamenting, or repining. Allow and permit involve large concession of the will; put up with and tolerate imply decided aversion and reluctant withholding of opposition or interference; whispering is allowed by the school-teacher who does not forbid nor censure it; one puts up with the presence of a disagreeable visitor; a state tolerates a religion which it would be glad to suppress. To endure is to bear with strain and resistance, but with conscious power; endure conveys a fuller suggestion of contest and conquest than bear. One may choose to endure the pain of a surgical operation rather than take anesthetics; he permits the thing to come which he must brace himself to endure when it comes. To afford is to be equal to a pecuniary demand, i. e., to be able to bear it. To brook is quietly to put up with provocation or insult. Abide combines the senses of await and endure; as, I will abide the result. Compare ABIDE; SUPPORT.

    Synonyms:
    abide, allow, bear, bear up under, bear with, brook, endure, permit, put up with, submit to, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate, undergo

    Antonyms:
    break, break down, despair, droop, fail, faint, fall, falter, give out, give up, sink, succumb, surrender, yield

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.1 / 10 votes

  1. afford

    Synonyms:
    produce, supply, give, yield, grant, confer, bestow, impart, administer, extend

    Antonyms:
    withhold, deny, withdraw, retain, stint, grudge

Princeton's WordNet2.4 / 7 votes

  1. affordverb

    be able to spare or give up

    "I can't afford to spend two hours with this person"

    Synonyms:
    yield, open, give

  2. yield, give, affordverb

    be the cause or source of

    "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"

    Synonyms:
    commit, chip in, dedicate, succumb, cave in, relent, impart, pass, pass on, move over, return, establish, reach, concede, have, give in, fall in, make, give, collapse, throw, gift, kick in, feed, break, ease up, apply, cede, grant, knuckle under, founder, devote, hold, buckle under, render, soften, present, sacrifice, yield, open, turn over, leave, give way, consecrate, generate, contribute, pay, hand, bear

  3. affordverb

    have the financial means to do something or buy something

    "We can't afford to send our children to college"; "Can you afford this car?"

    Synonyms:
    yield, open, give

  4. afford, open, giveverb

    afford access to

    "the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace"

    Synonyms:
    commit, chip in, dedicate, cave in, collapse, spread, impart, spread out, move over, return, establish, reach, present, have, fall in, make, pay, unfold, grant, throw, gift, kick in, feed, break, pass on, ease up, apply, give, open up, open, founder, devote, hold, pass, render, sacrifice, yield, turn over, leave, give way, consecrate, generate, contribute, hand

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. affordverb

    Synonyms:
    supply, furnish, yield, produce

  2. affordverb

    Synonyms:
    confer, impart, grant, bestow, offer, lend, give, communicate, spare

  3. affordverb

    Synonyms:
    bear the cost or expense of

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "afford":

    allow, pay, burden, enable, buy, provide

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How to use afford in a sentence?

  1. Marco Rubio:

    We can't afford to lose this election and if I'm the nominee, we won't.

  2. White House:

    We can not fairly be expected to participate in a hearing while the witnesses are yet to be named and while it remains unclear whether Judiciary Committee will afford the President a fair process through additional hearings.

  3. Refugees António Guterres:

    Worsening conditions are driving growing numbers towards Europe and further afield, but the overwhelming majority remain in the region, we cannot afford to let them and the communities hosting them slide further into desperation.

  4. Hillary Clinton:

    Lots of working parents can't afford child care, which in many states costs as much as college tuition so for millions of moms and dads, if they get sick there's no backup.

  5. Jim Manley:

    I played a lot of hardball in my life, but I don't envy what the Clinton campaign is up against here. Trump himself has totally changed the political dynamic, what they can't afford to do is get in the gutter with the guy. He has absolutely no morals or scruples. Getting into the gutter with him is an absolute waste of time.


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