What are the opposite words for pursue?
Pursue is a verb that means to follow or chase something or someone with a goal in mind. The opposite of this word is to retreat, withdraw or leave. When one is not interested in following a particular object or target, they can avoid or ignore it, which is contrary to pursuing. Other antonyms of pursue can be give up, drop, abandon, quit, or forsake, which imply a complete lack of action or interest towards a goal. Resign, surrender, and yield can also be considered as antonyms of pursuing. In general, antonyms of pursue reflect a lack of interest or a conscious decision to let go of an objective.
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abandon
- flake out,
- leave,
- leave behind,
- leg it,
- let go,
- take a powder,
- Withdrew,
- fly the coop,
- letting go,
- lets go,
- kiss goodbye,
- run out on,
- ship out,
- running out on,
- left behind,
- de sert,
- de-sert,
- dis card,
- dis carded,
- dis carding,
- dis cards,
- dis continue,
- dis continued,
- dis continues,
- dis continuing,
- dis owned,
- dis owning,
- dis-card,
- dis-carded,
- dis-carding,
- dis-cards,
- dis-continue,
- dis-continued,
- dis-continues,
- dis-continuing,
- dis-owned,
- dis-owning,
- flaked out,
- flakes out,
- flaking out,
- flew coop,
- flew the coop,
- flies coop,
- flies the coop,
- fly coop,
- flying coop,
- flying the coop,
- gave ship,
- gave the ship,
- gave up ship,
- gave up the ship,
- give ship,
- give the ship,
- give up ship,
- give up the ship,
- gives ship,
- gives the ship,
- gives up ship,
- gives up the ship,
- giving ship,
- giving the ship,
- giving up ship,
- giving up the ship,
- kissed goodbye,
- kisses goodbye,
- kissing goodbye,
- leaves behind,
- leaving behind,
- legged it,
- legging it,
- legs it,
- letted go,
- ran out on,
- runs out on,
- shipped out,
- shipping out,
- ships out,
- storm out,
- stormed out,
- storming out,
- storms out,
- sur render,
- sur rendered,
- sur rendering,
- sur renders,
- sur-render,
- sur-rendered,
- sur-rendering,
- sur-renders,
- take a walk,
- take powder,
- take walk,
- takes a powder,
- takes a walk,
- takes powder,
- takes walk,
- taking a powder,
- taking a walk,
- taking powder,
- taking walk,
- took a powder,
- took a walk,
- took powder,
- took walk,
- wash hands of,
- washed hands of,
- washes hands of,
- washing hands of,
- with draw,
- with drawing,
- with drawn,
- with draws,
- with drew,
- with-draw,
- with-drawing,
- with-drawn,
- with-draws,
- with-drew.
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resign
- sign off,
- throw in the towel,
- Re sign,
- stand aside,
- cease work,
- ceased work,
- ceases work,
- ceasing work,
- divorce from,
- divorce oneself from,
- divorced from,
- divorced oneself from,
- divorces from,
- divorces oneself from,
- divorcing from,
- divorcing oneself from,
- end service,
- ended service,
- ending service,
- ends service,
- hand in resignation,
- hand resignation,
- handed in resignation,
- handed resignation,
- handing in resignation,
- handing resignation,
- hands in resignation,
- hands resignation,
- re signed,
- re signing,
- re signs,
- re-signed,
- re-signs,
- separate oneself from,
- separated from,
- separated oneself from,
- separates from,
- separates oneself from,
- separating from,
- signed off,
- signing off,
- signs off,
- stand down,
- standing down,
- stands aside,
- stands down,
- stood aside,
- stood down,
- threw in the towel,
- threw the towel,
- threw towel,
- throw in towel,
- throw towel,
- throwing in towel,
- throwing the towel,
- throwing towel,
- throws in the towel,
- throws in towel,
- throws the towel,
- throws towel,
- walked out,
- walks out.
- kill
- back up
- cancel
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despair
- give way,
- giving way,
- lose heart,
- lose faith,
- am hopeless,
- are hopeless,
- art hopeless,
- be hopeless,
- being hopeless,
- de stroy,
- de stroyed,
- de stroying,
- de stroys,
- de-stroy,
- de-stroyed,
- de-stroying,
- de-stroys,
- gave way,
- had heavy heart,
- haddest heavy heart,
- hadst heavy heart,
- has heavy heart,
- hast heavy heart,
- have heavy heart,
- having heavy heart,
- is hopeless,
- letted air out,
- letting air out,
- loses faith,
- loses heart,
- losing heart,
- lost faith,
- lost heart,
- was hopeless,
- wast hopeless,
- were hopeless,
- wert hopeless.
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knock off
- iced,
- knock over,
- offing,
- stretch out,
- stretched out,
- whacked,
- whacking,
- give over,
- blow away,
- stop work,
- blew away,
- blowing away,
- blows away,
- dis patch,
- dis patched,
- dis patches,
- dis patching,
- dis-patch,
- dis-patched,
- dis-patches,
- dis-patching,
- gave over,
- gives over,
- giving over,
- knocked over,
- knocking over,
- knocks over,
- offed,
- stopped work,
- stopping work,
- stops work,
- stopt work,
- stretching out,
- sur cease,
- sur ceased,
- sur ceases,
- sur-cease,
- sur-ceased,
- sur-ceases,
- sur-ceasing.
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quit
- give notice,
- hang up,
- call it quits,
- call it a day,
- sew up,
- kick over,
- pack in,
- sewed up,
- cut it out,
- call a day,
- call day,
- call it day,
- call quits,
- called a day,
- called day,
- called it a day,
- called it day,
- called it quits,
- called quits,
- calling a day,
- calling day,
- calling it a day,
- calling it day,
- calling it quits,
- calling quits,
- calls a day,
- calls day,
- calls it a day,
- calls it day,
- calls it quits,
- calls quits,
- cuts it out,
- cutting it out,
- gat on the wagon,
- gat on wagon,
- gat the wagon,
- gat wagon,
- gave notice,
- get on wagon,
- get the wagon,
- get wagon,
- gets on the wagon,
- gets on wagon,
- gets the wagon,
- gets wagon,
- getting on the wagon,
- getting on wagon,
- getting the wagon,
- gives notice,
- giving notice,
- got on the wagon,
- got on wagon,
- got the wagon,
- got wagon,
- gotten on the wagon,
- gotten on wagon,
- gotten the wagon,
- hang it up,
- hanged it up,
- hanged up,
- hanging it up,
- hanging up,
- hung it up,
- kick habit,
- kick the habit,
- kicked habit,
- kicked over,
- kicked the habit,
- kicking habit,
- kicking the habit,
- kicks habit,
- kicks the habit,
- packed in,
- packing in,
- packs in,
- quit cold,
- quits cold,
- quitted cold,
- quitting cold,
- sews up,
- take cure,
- take the cure,
- takes cure,
- takes the cure,
- taking cure,
- taking the cure,
- took cure,
- took the cure.
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drop
- adios,
- beaded,
- beading,
- cave in,
- nose dive,
- part with,
- plumping,
- wash out,
- Snowed,
- Snowing,
- parting with,
- parts with,
- nose-dives,
- nose-diving,
- plumps,
- dust off,
- part from,
- caving in,
- have done with,
- adiosed,
- adioses,
- adiosing,
- am alienated from,
- are alienated from,
- art alienated from,
- be alienated from,
- being alienated from,
- caved in,
- caves in,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de press,
- de pressed,
- de presses,
- de pressing,
- de scend,
- de scended,
- de scending,
- de scends,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-press,
- de-pressed,
- de-presses,
- de-pressing,
- de-scend,
- de-scended,
- de-scending,
- de-scends,
- dis missed,
- dis missing,
- dis till,
- dis tilled,
- dis tilling,
- dis tills,
- dis-missed,
- dis-missing,
- dis-till,
- dis-tilled,
- dis-tilling,
- dis-tills,
- dusted off,
- dusting off,
- dusts off,
- eighty six,
- forgat about,
- forget about,
- forgets about,
- forgetting about,
- forgot about,
- had done with,
- haddest done with,
- hadst done with,
- has done with,
- hast done with,
- hath done with,
- having done with,
- is alienated from,
- nose dives,
- nose diving,
- nose dove,
- nose-dive,
- nose-dove,
- nosedived,
- nosediving,
- nosedove,
- parted from,
- parted with,
- parting from,
- parts from,
- re lease,
- re leases,
- re-lease,
- re-leased,
- re-leases,
- top pled,
- un load,
- un loaded,
- un loading,
- un loads,
- un-load,
- un-loads,
- was alienated from,
- washed out,
- washes out,
- washing out,
- wast alienated from,
- waste one,
- wasted one,
- wastes one,
- wasting one,
- were alienated from,
- wert alienated from.
- leave behind, relinquish
- give up a right, position, or power
- move backward
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abdicate
- give up,
- quitclaim,
- bag it,
- bagged it,
- bagging it,
- bags it,
- leave high dry,
- leave holding bag,
- leave holding the bag,
- leave lurch,
- leaved high and dry,
- leaved holding the bag,
- leaves holding bag,
- leaves holding the bag,
- leaving high and dry,
- leaving high dry,
- leaving holding bag,
- leaving holding the bag,
- left high and dry,
- left high dry,
- left holding bag,
- re tire,
- re tired,
- re tires,
- re tiring,
- re-tire,
- re-tiring.
- give up hope
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fall in globules
- drop.
- chase, follow
- persist, persevere
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stop doing something
- quit.
- give up responsibility
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
getting way
- Antonyms:
- approve, begin, go.
