What are the opposite words for appear?
Appearance refers to the manifestation or display of something, and to express the opposite meaning, one must look for antonyms of the same word. Antonyms of the word "appear" include disappear, vanish, and fade. Disappear indicates something that goes out of sight abruptly or entirely, while vanish means to disappear suddenly and completely. Fade suggests a gradual and slow disappearance of something, often losing its intensity or color, as in fading light. Other antonyms of appear are conceal, hide, and mask. These antonyms refer to something that is either hidden or kept secret and are used when one wants to express the opposite meaning of appearance.
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- cease
- change
- eat
- escape
- disperse
- die
- consume
- disappear
- pass
- abscond
- absquatulate
- decline
- dissolve
- evaporate
- lam
- shake off
- use up
- volatilize
- dissipate
- dive
- fade
- lift
- melt
- perish
- vanish
- set
- come into sight
- be published; perform
- wither, dwindle
- vanish; cease
- distribute; scatter
- expend, spend
- melt from solid to liquid; mix in
- descend, usually going underwater
- erode, wear away; use up
- break away from
- dry up, dissolve
- lose color
- move upwards; ascend
- liquefy; dissolve
- die, decline, decay
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
cease
- pass.
- change
- eat
-
escape
- absquatulate,
- burst out,
- lam,
- run away,
- slip away,
- play hooky,
- get away with,
- run out on,
- running out on,
- bursted out,
- bursting out,
- bursts out,
- de sert,
- de-sert,
- gat away with,
- gets away with,
- getting away with,
- go scot free,
- go scot-free,
- go scotfree,
- goes scot free,
- goes scot-free,
- goes scotfree,
- going scotfree,
- got away with,
- made getaway,
- made oneself scarce,
- make getaway,
- makes getaway,
- makes oneself scarce,
- played hooky,
- playing hooky,
- plays hooky,
- ran away,
- ran out on,
- runs away,
- slipped away,
- slips away,
- slipt away,
- take lam,
- take on lam,
- take on the lam,
- take powder,
- take the lam,
- takes a powder,
- takes on lam,
- takes on the lam,
- takes powder,
- takes the lam,
- taking a powder,
- taking lam,
- taking on lam,
- taking on the lam,
- taking powder,
- taking the lam,
- took lam,
- took on lam,
- took on the lam,
- took powder,
- took the lam,
- went scot free,
- went scot-free,
- went scotfree,
- work out of,
- worked out of,
- works out of,
- wriggled out,
- wriggling out,
- wrought out of.
-
disperse
- besprinkle,
- diffused,
- diffusing,
- measure out,
- Besprinkled,
- Besprinkling,
- diffuses,
- besprinkles,
- be sprinkle,
- be sprinkled,
- be sprinkles,
- be sprinkling,
- be-sprinkle,
- be-sprinkled,
- be-sprinkles,
- be-sprinkling,
- cast forth,
- casting forth,
- casts forth,
- dis band,
- dis banded,
- dis banding,
- dis bands,
- dis burse,
- dis burses,
- dis charge,
- dis charged,
- dis charges,
- dis charging,
- dis lodge,
- dis lodged,
- dis lodges,
- dis lodging,
- dis missed,
- dis missing,
- dis perse,
- dis-band,
- dis-banded,
- dis-banding,
- dis-bands,
- dis-burse,
- dis-burses,
- dis-charge,
- dis-charged,
- dis-charges,
- dis-charging,
- dis-lodge,
- dis-lodged,
- dis-lodges,
- dis-lodging,
- dis-missed,
- dis-missing,
- dis-perse,
- measured out,
- measures out,
- measuring out,
- sending off,
- sends off,
- sent off,
- take all directions,
- take directions,
- take in all directions,
- take in directions,
- take off all directions,
- take off directions,
- take off in all directions,
- takes all directions,
- takes directions,
- takes in all directions,
- takes in directions,
- takes off all directions,
- takes off directions,
- takes off in all directions,
- taking all directions,
- taking in all directions,
- taking in directions,
- taking off all directions,
- taking off directions,
- taking off in directions,
- took all directions,
- took directions,
- took in all directions,
- took in directions,
- took off all directions,
- took off in all directions,
- took off in directions.
-
die
- break down,
- dilapidate,
- ease off,
- fade away,
- fade out,
- fizzle out,
- go bad,
- run low,
- wearing away,
- Dilapidating,
- Retrograded,
- Retrograding,
- went downhill,
- dilapidates,
- goes downhill,
- go downhill,
- going downhill,
- retrogrades,
- melt away,
- running low,
- breaking down,
- brake down,
- breaks down,
- broke down,
- de cay,
- de cays,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de generate,
- de generated,
- de generates,
- de generating,
- de-cay,
- de-cays,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-generate,
- de-generated,
- de-generates,
- de-generating,
- eased off,
- eases off,
- easing off,
- ex pire,
- ex-pire,
- faded out,
- fades out,
- fading out,
- fizzled out,
- fizzles out,
- fizzling out,
- goes bad,
- going bad,
- loses power,
- losing power,
- lost power,
- melted away,
- melting away,
- melts away,
- ran low,
- re cedes,
- re ceding,
- re-cede,
- re-ceded,
- re-cedes,
- re-ceding,
- retro grade,
- retro graded,
- retro grades,
- retro grading,
- retro-graded,
- retro-grades,
- retro-grading,
- sub side,
- sub sided,
- sub sides,
- sub-sides,
- went bad.
-
consume
- finish up,
- frivol away,
- wash up,
- run out of,
- profit by,
- put to use,
- have recourse to,
- avail oneself of,
- pre-occupied,
- avail of,
- availed of,
- availed oneself of,
- availing of,
- availing oneself of,
- avails of,
- avails oneself of,
- ex pend,
- ex pended,
- ex pending,
- ex pends,
- ex-pend,
- ex-pended,
- ex-pending,
- ex-pends,
- finished up,
- finishes up,
- finishing up,
- frivoling away,
- frivolled away,
- frivolling away,
- frivols away,
- haddest recourse to,
- hadst recourse to,
- has recourse to,
- hath recourse to,
- having recourse to,
- pre occupied,
- pre occupies,
- pre occupy,
- pre-occupies,
- pre-occupy,
- pre-occupying,
- profited by,
- profiting by,
- profits by,
- put use,
- puts to use,
- puts use,
- putting to use,
- putting use,
- ran out of,
- running out of,
- runs out of,
- washed up,
- washing up.
-
disappear
- dematerialize,
- die out,
- fading away,
- recede,
- retreating,
- take flight,
- vamoose,
- vanish,
- Evanish,
- Waned,
- exited,
- passed away,
- passing away,
- OUTS,
- dematerializing,
- dematerialized,
- dematerializes,
- outed,
- be gone,
- be no more,
- be swallowed up,
- cease to exist,
- come to naught,
- drop out of sight,
- end gradually,
- leave no trace,
- be lost,
- am done for,
- am gone,
- am lost,
- am no more,
- am swallowed up,
- are done for,
- are gone,
- are swallowed up,
- art gone,
- art lost,
- art no more,
- art swallowed up,
- be done for,
- being done for,
- being gone,
- being lost,
- being no more,
- being swallowed up,
- came naught,
- came to naught,
- cease exist,
- ceased exist,
- ceased to exist,
- ceases exist,
- ceases to exist,
- ceasing exist,
- ceasing to exist,
- come naught,
- comes naught,
- comes to naught,
- coming naught,
- coming to naught,
- de materialize,
- de materialized,
- de materializes,
- de materializing,
- de part,
- de parted,
- de parting,
- de parts,
- de-materialize,
- de-materialized,
- de-materializes,
- de-materializing,
- de-part,
- de-parted,
- de-parting,
- de-parts,
- died out,
- dieing out,
- dies out,
- dis appear,
- dis appeared,
- dis appearing,
- dis appears,
- dis-appear,
- dis-appeared,
- dis-appearing,
- dis-appears,
- drop out sight,
- dropped out of sight,
- dropped out sight,
- dropping out of sight,
- dropping out sight,
- drops out of sight,
- drops out sight,
- dropt out of sight,
- dropt out sight,
- dying out,
- ended gradually,
- ending gradually,
- ends gradually,
- evanished,
- evanishes,
- evanishing,
- faded away,
- fades away,
- is done for,
- is gone,
- is lost,
- is no more,
- is swallowed up,
- leaved no trace,
- leaves no trace,
- leaving no trace,
- left no trace,
- re cede,
- re ceded,
- re tire,
- re tired,
- re tires,
- re tiring,
- re treated,
- re treating,
- re treats,
- re-tire,
- re-tires,
- re-tiring,
- re-treat,
- re-treated,
- re-treating,
- re-treats,
- takes flight,
- taking flight,
- took flight,
- was done for,
- was gone,
- was lost,
- was no more,
- was swallowed up,
- wast done for,
- wast gone,
- wast lost,
- wast no more,
- wast swallowed up,
- were done for,
- were gone,
- were lost,
- were no more,
- were swallowed up,
- wert done for,
- wert gone,
- wert lost,
- wert no more,
- wert swallowed up,
- with draw,
- with drawing,
- with drawn,
- with draws,
- with drew,
- with-draw,
- with-drawing,
- with-drawn,
- with-drew.
-
pass
- cash in,
- Demised,
- Demising,
- cashed in,
- cashes in,
- cashing in,
- de cease,
- de ceased,
- de ceases,
- de ceasing,
- de mise,
- de mises,
- de-cease,
- de-ceased,
- de-ceases,
- de-ceasing,
- de-mise,
- de-mises,
- dis continue,
- dis continued,
- dis continues,
- dis continuing,
- dis-continue,
- dis-continued,
- dis-continues,
- dis-continuing.
-
abscond
- run off,
- sneak away,
- fly the coop,
- running off,
- runs off,
- duck out,
- skip out,
- going AWOL,
- cut and run,
- cut run,
- cuts and run,
- cuts run,
- cutting and run,
- cutting run,
- de camp,
- de camped,
- de camping,
- de camps,
- de-camp,
- de-camped,
- de-camping,
- de-camps,
- dog it,
- dogged it,
- dogging it,
- dogs it,
- ducked out,
- ducking out,
- ducks out,
- flew coop,
- flew the coop,
- flies coop,
- flies the coop,
- fly coop,
- flying coop,
- flying the coop,
- go south,
- goes awol,
- goes south,
- going south,
- made a break,
- made break,
- made scarce,
- make a break,
- make break,
- make scarce,
- makes a break,
- makes scarce,
- making a break,
- making break,
- making scarce,
- skipped out,
- skipping out,
- skips out,
- sneaked away,
- sneaking away,
- sneaks away,
- snuck away,
- stealing away,
- steals away,
- stole away,
- went awol,
- went south.
- absquatulate
-
decline
- set.
-
dissolve
- unmake,
- wasting away,
- Fluxed,
- Fluxing,
- waste away,
- unmaking,
- put an end to,
- render void,
- wasted away,
- brake in to pieces,
- brake into pieces,
- break in to pieces,
- break into pieces,
- breaking in to pieces,
- breaking into pieces,
- breaks in to pieces,
- breaks into pieces,
- broke in to pieces,
- broke into pieces,
- de compose,
- de composed,
- de composes,
- de composing,
- de front,
- de fronted,
- de fronting,
- de fronts,
- de stroy,
- de stroyed,
- de stroying,
- de stroys,
- de-compose,
- de-composed,
- de-composes,
- de-composing,
- de-front,
- de-fronted,
- de-fronting,
- de-fronts,
- de-stroy,
- de-stroyed,
- de-stroying,
- de-stroys,
- defront,
- defronted,
- defronting,
- defronts,
- dis organize,
- dis organized,
- dis organizes,
- dis organizing,
- dis solve,
- dis solved,
- dis solves,
- dis solving,
- dis unite,
- dis united,
- dis unites,
- dis uniting,
- dis-organize,
- dis-organized,
- dis-organizes,
- dis-organizing,
- dis-solve,
- dis-solved,
- dis-solves,
- dis-solving,
- dis-unite,
- dis-united,
- dis-unites,
- dis-uniting,
- fluidifies,
- fluidify,
- fluidifying,
- in validate,
- in validated,
- in validates,
- in validating,
- in-validate,
- in-validated,
- in-validates,
- in-validating,
- liquesce,
- liquesced,
- liquesces,
- liquescing,
- over throw,
- over throwing,
- over thrown,
- over throws,
- over-throw,
- over-throwing,
- over-thrown,
- over-throws,
- post pone,
- post pones,
- post-pones,
- put end to,
- puts an end to,
- puts end to,
- putting end to,
- re peal,
- re pealed,
- re pealing,
- re peals,
- re-pealed,
- re-peals,
- rendered void,
- rendering void,
- renders void,
- resolve in to,
- resolved in to,
- resolved into,
- resolves in to,
- resolves into,
- resolving in to,
- resolving into,
- un made,
- un make,
- un makes,
- un making,
- un-made,
- un-make,
- un-makes,
- unmakes,
- wastes away.
- evaporate
-
lam
- give someone the slip,
- gave someone the slip,
- give someone slip,
- gives someone slip,
- gives someone the slip,
- giving someone slip,
- take it the lam,
- takes it lam,
- takes it on lam,
- takes it on the lam,
- takes it the lam,
- taking it lam,
- taking it on lam,
- taking it on the lam,
- took it lam,
- took it on lam,
- took it on the lam,
- took it the lam.
-
shake off
- leave behind,
- rid of,
- shake off,
- unburdened,
- unburdens,
- unburdening,
- get away from,
- rid oneself of,
- left behind,
- gat away from,
- gave slip,
- gave the slip,
- gets away from,
- getting away from,
- give slip,
- give the slip,
- gives slip,
- gives the slip,
- giving slip,
- giving the slip,
- got away from,
- gotten away from,
- leaved behind,
- leaves behind,
- leaving behind,
- re move,
- re moved,
- re moving,
- re-move,
- re-moves,
- re-moving,
- ridded of,
- ridded oneself of,
- ridding of,
- ridding oneself of,
- rids of,
- rids oneself of,
- shakes off,
- un burden,
- un burdened,
- un burdening,
- un burdens,
- un-burden,
- un-burdened,
- un-burdening,
- un-burdens.
- use up
- volatilize
-
dissipate
- burn up,
- drive away,
- evanesce,
- run dry,
- use up,
- using up,
- burned up,
- kiss goodbye,
- am wasteful with,
- are wasteful with,
- art wasteful with,
- be wasteful with,
- being wasteful with,
- burning up,
- burns up,
- burnt up,
- drave away,
- drives away,
- driving away,
- drove away,
- indulge oneself,
- indulged oneself,
- indulges oneself,
- indulging oneself,
- is wasteful with,
- kissed goodbye,
- kisses goodbye,
- kissing goodbye,
- mis spend,
- mis spending,
- mis spends,
- mis spent,
- mis used,
- mis using,
- mis-spend,
- mis-spending,
- mis-spends,
- mis-spent,
- mis-used,
- mis-using,
- ran dry,
- running dry,
- runs dry,
- trifled away,
- trifles away,
- used up,
- uses up,
- was wasteful with,
- were wasteful with,
- wert wasteful with.
-
dive
- guttering,
- nose dive,
- Guttered,
- nose-dives,
- nose-diving,
- belly flopped,
- belly flopping,
- go headfirst,
- goes headfirst,
- going headfirst,
- headered,
- headering,
- nose dives,
- nose diving,
- nose dove,
- nose-dive,
- nose-dove,
- nosedived,
- nosediving,
- nosedove,
- sub merges,
- sub merging,
- sub-merge,
- sub-merged,
- sub-merges,
- sub-merging.
-
fade
- achromatize,
- decolorize,
- die away,
- fag out,
- muddied,
- tucker out,
- wash out,
- Achromatized,
- Dulling,
- Muddying,
- dulls,
- muddies,
- decolorized,
- dying away,
- slacking off,
- grow dim,
- achromatizes,
- awaying,
- aways,
- became colorless,
- become colorless,
- becomes colorless,
- becoming colorless,
- de colorize,
- de colorized,
- de colorizes,
- de colorizing,
- de-colorize,
- de-colorized,
- de-colorizes,
- de-colorizing,
- decolorizes,
- decolorizing,
- die on vine,
- die vine,
- died away,
- died on vine,
- died vine,
- dieing away,
- dieing on vine,
- dieing vine,
- dies away,
- dies on vine,
- dies vine,
- dis color,
- dis colored,
- dis coloring,
- dis colors,
- dis-color,
- dis-colored,
- dis-coloring,
- dis-colors,
- disco loring,
- disco-loring,
- dying on vine,
- dying vine,
- fagged out,
- fagging out,
- fags out,
- grew dim,
- grows dim,
- lose brightness,
- lose luster,
- loses brightness,
- loses luster,
- losing brightness,
- losing luster,
- lost brightness,
- lost luster,
- on vine,
- slacked off,
- slacks off,
- tuckering out,
- tuckers out,
- washed out,
- washes out,
- washing out.
-
lift
- heft,
- jack up,
- move up,
- upheave,
- Hefted,
- Hefting,
- upheaving,
- gooses,
- goosing,
- hefts,
- jump up,
- upheaved,
- moving up,
- bare aloft,
- beared aloft,
- bearing aloft,
- bears aloft,
- bore aloft,
- goosed,
- hiked up,
- hiking up,
- jacked up,
- jumps up,
- moved up,
- raise high,
- raised high,
- raises high,
- raising high,
- up heave,
- up heaved,
- up heaves,
- up heaving,
- up held,
- up hold,
- up holding,
- up holds,
- up hove,
- up lift,
- up lifted,
- up lifting,
- up lifts,
- up raise,
- up raised,
- up raising,
- up rear,
- up rearing,
- up rears,
- up-heaved,
- up-heaves,
- up-heaving,
- up-held,
- up-hold,
- up-holding,
- up-holds,
- up-hove,
- up-lift,
- up-lifted,
- up-lifting,
- up-lifts,
- up-raise,
- up-raised,
- up-raises,
- up-raising,
- up-rear,
- up-reared,
- up-rearing,
- up-rears,
- upheaves,
- uphove.
- melt
-
perish
- pass on,
- Ods,
- passed on,
- passes on,
- passing on,
- ODED,
- am destroyed,
- am killed,
- are destroyed,
- are killed,
- art destroyed,
- art killed,
- be destroyed,
- be killed,
- being destroyed,
- being killed,
- bite dust,
- buy farm,
- gave ghost,
- gave the ghost,
- gave up ghost,
- gave up the ghost,
- give ghost,
- give the ghost,
- give up ghost,
- give up the ghost,
- gives ghost,
- gives the ghost,
- gives up the ghost,
- giving ghost,
- giving up ghost,
- giving up the ghost,
- is destroyed,
- is killed,
- kick bucket,
- lose life,
- loses life,
- losing life,
- lost life,
- od'd,
- od'ed,
- oding,
- was destroyed,
- was killed,
- wast destroyed,
- wast killed,
- were destroyed,
- were killed,
- wert destroyed,
- wert killed.
- vanish
- set
- come into sight
- be published; perform
-
wither, dwindle
- die.
- vanish; cease
- distribute; scatter
- expend, spend
- melt from solid to liquid; mix in
-
descend, usually going underwater
- dive.
-
erode, wear away; use up
- eat.
- break away from
- dry up, dissolve
-
lose color
- fade.
-
move upwards; ascend
- lift.
-
liquefy; dissolve
- melt.
- die, decline, decay
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
putting gear
- Antonyms:
- close, disenchant, disgust.
