Synonyms for beneath
bɪˈniθ, -ˈniðbe·neath

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1. beneath

   Synonyms:
   below, underneath, under, adown

   Antonyms:
   above, over, overhead, aloft

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1. below, at a lower place, to a lower place, beneathadverb

   in or to a place that is lower

   Synonyms:
   on a lower floor, at a lower place, infra, below, under, to a lower place, downstairs, down the stairs

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1. beneathprep.

   Synonyms:
   under, underneath, below

2. beneathprep.

   Synonyms:
   unbecoming, unbefitting, unworthy of

3. beneathadjective

   Synonyms:
   below

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1. List of paraphrases for "beneath":

   below, under, underneath

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1. Lois Greenfield:

   I shoot just one moment at a time. ... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception, it's often a moment when (the dancers are) falling, or they're going up, or two people are about to touch or something like that. Those moments are more expressive than the typical dance photo of someone in a perfect position on the ground or in the air.

2. Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD):

   Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

3. York University:

   Climate change could remobilize the abandoned hazardous waste believed to be buried forever beneath the Greenland ice sheet.

4. Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad:

   I don't think I paused to process what had happened on 9/11, because I was too busy responding. I couldn't grieve, because I felt under siege, everything changed suddenly. The ground beneath our feet was shifting. At the same time, there was no way as an Bangladeshi American, Berkeley-educated Muslim woman I would cower in this situation.

5. Aaron Hill:

   Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.