What are the opposite words for steady?
Steady is a word that describes consistency, stability, and balance. Its antonyms are unstable, unpredictable, fickle, and erratic. Unstable represents something that is not firm or secure, while unpredictable refers to something that cannot be relied on or anticipated. Fickle represents changeable or capricious, and erratic describes something that lacks consistency or behaves in an unpredictable manner. These antonyms remind us that stability and consistency are not always guaranteed, and we must be prepared for circumstances that are unstable, unpredictable, fickle, or erratic to achieve success in our endeavors.
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fear
- Shying,
- shies,
- lose courage,
- am anxious,
- am apprehensive,
- am awe,
- am disquieted,
- am in awe,
- are anxious,
- are apprehensive,
- are awe,
- are disquieted,
- are frightened,
- are in awe,
- art anxious,
- art apprehensive,
- art awe,
- art frightened,
- art in awe,
- be anxious,
- be apprehensive,
- be awe,
- be disquieted,
- be frightened,
- be in awe,
- being anxious,
- being apprehensive,
- being awe,
- being disquieted,
- being frightened,
- being in awe,
- brake out a sweat,
- brake out in a sweat,
- brake out in sweat,
- brake out sweat,
- break out a sweat,
- break out in a sweat,
- break out in sweat,
- break out sweat,
- breaking out a sweat,
- breaking out in a sweat,
- breaking out in sweat,
- breaking out sweat,
- breaks out a sweat,
- breaks out in a sweat,
- breaks out in sweat,
- breaks out sweat,
- broke out a sweat,
- broke out in a sweat,
- broke out in sweat,
- broke out sweat,
- dare not,
- dared not,
- dares not,
- daring not,
- feel concern,
- feels concern,
- fore saw,
- fore seeing,
- fore seen,
- fore sees,
- fore-saw,
- fore-see,
- fore-seen,
- fore-sees,
- had butterflies,
- had qualms,
- haddest butterflies,
- hadst butterflies,
- hadst qualms,
- has qualms,
- hast butterflies,
- hast qualms,
- hath butterflies,
- have butterflies,
- have qualms,
- having qualms,
- is anxious,
- is apprehensive,
- is awe,
- is disquieted,
- is frightened,
- loses courage,
- lost courage,
- was anxious,
- was apprehensive,
- was in awe,
- wast apprehensive,
- wast awe,
- wast disquieted,
- wast frightened,
- wast in awe,
- were anxious,
- were apprehensive,
- were awe,
- were disquieted,
- were frightened,
- were in awe,
- wert anxious,
- wert apprehensive,
- wert disquieted,
- wert frightened.
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oscillate
- librate,
- teeter-totter,
- Librated,
- Pendulate,
- Waltzed,
- Waltzing,
- teeter-totters,
- teeter-tottering,
- fishtailing,
- fishtailed,
- teetertotter,
- be unsteady,
- am unsteady,
- are unsteady,
- art unsteady,
- being unsteady,
- is unsteady,
- librates,
- pendulated,
- pendulates,
- pendulating,
- teeter tottered,
- teeter tottering,
- teeter totters,
- teetertottered,
- teetertottering,
- teetertotters,
- was unsteady,
- were unsteady,
- wert unsteady.
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recoil
- pull back,
- resile,
- stickle,
- turn away,
- turning away,
- Resiled,
- Stickled,
- Stickling,
- shy away,
- step back,
- pulling back,
- pulled back,
- re bound,
- re bounded,
- re bounding,
- re bounds,
- re coil,
- re coiled,
- re coiling,
- re coils,
- re-bound,
- re-bounded,
- re-bounding,
- re-bounds,
- re-coil,
- re-coiled,
- re-coiling,
- re-coils,
- resiles,
- shied away,
- shies away,
- stepped back,
- stepping back,
- steps back,
- turned away,
- turns away,
- with draw,
- with drawing,
- with drawn,
- with draws,
- with drew,
- with-draw,
- with-drawing,
- with-drawn,
- with-drew.
- rock
- flinch
-
run
- diffused,
- diffusing,
- Fluxed,
- Fluxing,
- diffuses,
- dis charge,
- dis charged,
- dis charges,
- dis charging,
- dis solve,
- dis solved,
- dis solves,
- dis solving,
- dis-charge,
- dis-charged,
- dis-charges,
- dis-charging,
- dis-solve,
- dis-solved,
- dis-solves,
- dis-solving,
- go soft,
- goes soft,
- going soft,
- turn liquid,
- turn to liquid,
- turned liquid,
- turned to liquid,
- turning to liquid,
- turns liquid,
- turns to liquid,
- went soft.
-
roll
- bombinate,
- go past,
- re-echo,
- swing around,
- trundle,
- whirr,
- Cannonading,
- Eddied,
- Eddying,
- Re-sound,
- Trundled,
- Trundling,
- Weltered,
- Weltering,
- Whirred,
- whirrs,
- trundles,
- cannonaded,
- am sequence,
- are in sequence,
- are sequence,
- art in sequence,
- art sequence,
- be in sequence,
- be sequence,
- being in sequence,
- being sequence,
- bombinated,
- bombinates,
- bombinating,
- goes past,
- going past,
- in cline,
- in clines,
- in-cline,
- in-clines,
- is in sequence,
- is sequence,
- re echo,
- re echoed,
- re echoes,
- re echoing,
- re sound,
- re sounding,
- re sounds,
- re-echoed,
- re-echoes,
- re-echoing,
- re-sounded,
- re-sounding,
- re-sounds,
- swang around,
- swinging around,
- swings around,
- swung around,
- was in sequence,
- was sequence,
- wast in sequence,
- wast sequence,
- went past,
- were in sequence,
- were sequence,
- wert in sequence,
- wert sequence.
- balance
- blench
- brace
-
craze
- infatuate,
- Dement,
- Distempered,
- Distempering,
- Infatuating,
- infatuates,
- unbalancing,
- dementing,
- frenzying,
- in flames,
- be wilder,
- be wildering,
- be wilders,
- be-wilder,
- be-wildering,
- be-wilders,
- de range,
- de ranges,
- de ranging,
- de-range,
- de-ranges,
- de-ranging,
- dements,
- dis temper,
- dis tempered,
- dis tempering,
- dis tempers,
- dis tract,
- dis tracts,
- dis-temper,
- dis-tempered,
- dis-tempering,
- dis-tempers,
- dis-tract,
- dis-tracts,
- drave mad,
- drive mad,
- drives mad,
- driving mad,
- drove mad,
- in flame,
- in flamed,
- in flaming,
- in-flame,
- in-flamed,
- in-flames,
- in-flaming,
- un balances,
- un balancing,
- un hinge,
- un hinges,
- un hinging,
- un-balances,
- un-balancing,
- un-hinge,
- un-hinges,
- un-hinging.
-
dread
- shrink from,
- am afraid,
- are afraid,
- art afraid,
- be afraid,
- being afraid,
- had cold feet,
- hadst cold feet,
- has cold feet,
- hath cold feet,
- is afraid,
- mis doubt,
- mis doubted,
- mis doubting,
- mis-doubt,
- mis-doubted,
- mis-doubting,
- shrank from,
- shrinking from,
- shrinks from,
- shrunk from,
- were afraid,
- wert afraid.
-
falter
- bobble,
- Whiffled,
- Whiffling,
- Whiffle,
- fluffed,
- fluffing,
- bobbling,
- bobbles,
- drop the ball,
- dropped ball,
- am undecided,
- are undecided,
- art undecided,
- be undecided,
- being undecided,
- bobbled,
- drop ball,
- dropped the ball,
- dropping ball,
- dropping the ball,
- drops ball,
- drops the ball,
- dropt ball,
- dropt the ball,
- hem haw,
- spake haltingly,
- speak haltingly,
- speaking haltingly,
- stub toe,
- stubbed toe,
- stubbing toe,
- stubs toe,
- top pled,
- trip up,
- tripped up,
- tripping up,
- trips up,
- wast undecided,
- were undecided,
- wert undecided,
- whiffles.
- lurch
-
operate
- am action,
- am in action,
- are action,
- are in action,
- art action,
- art in action,
- be action,
- be have,
- be haves,
- be having,
- be in action,
- be-have,
- be-haves,
- be-having,
- being action,
- being in action,
- co oked,
- co oking,
- co-oked,
- co-oking,
- gat results,
- get results,
- getting results,
- got results,
- gotten results,
- is action,
- pro duce,
- pro duces,
- pro moting,
- pro-duces,
- pro-mote,
- pro-motes,
- pro-moting,
- produce a result,
- produced result,
- produces a result,
- producing a result,
- producing result,
- re acted,
- re acting,
- re-acted,
- trans ported,
- was action,
- was in action,
- wast action,
- wast in action,
- were action,
- were in action,
- wert action,
- wert in action.
-
sway
- lead by the nose,
- put across,
- quaver,
- suck in,
- win over,
- work on,
- soften up,
- hold sway over,
- worked on,
- led by the nose,
- blow hot cold,
- dis pose,
- dis posed,
- dis posing,
- dis-pose,
- dis-posed,
- dis-posing,
- held sway over,
- holds sway over,
- impact on,
- impacted on,
- impacting on,
- impacts on,
- in duce,
- in duces,
- in spire,
- in spired,
- in spires,
- in spiring,
- in-duce,
- in-duces,
- in-spire,
- in-spired,
- in-spires,
- in-spiring,
- lead by nose,
- leading by nose,
- leading by the nose,
- leads by nose,
- leads by the nose,
- over ruled,
- over rules,
- over ruling,
- over-rule,
- over-ruled,
- over-rules,
- over-ruling,
- pre dispose,
- pre disposes,
- pre disposing,
- pre-dispose,
- pre-disposed,
- pre-disposes,
- puts across,
- putting across,
- rule over,
- ruled over,
- rules over,
- ruling over,
- softened up,
- softening up,
- softens up,
- sucked in,
- sucking in,
- sucks in,
- turn one head,
- turn one's head,
- turn ones head,
- turned head,
- turned one head,
- turning head,
- turning one head,
- turning one's head,
- turning ones head,
- turns head,
- turns one head,
- turns ones head,
- twist arm,
- twist one arm,
- twist one's arm,
- twist ones arm,
- twisted arm,
- twisted one arm,
- twisted one's arm,
- twisted ones arm,
- twisting one arm,
- twisting one's arm,
- twisting ones arm,
- twists arm,
- twists one arm,
- twists one's arm,
- twists ones arm,
- working on,
- works on,
- wrought on,
- yo yoed,
- yo yoing,
- yo yos,
- yo-yoed,
- yo-yoing,
- yo-yos,
- yoyoed,
- yoyoing,
- yoyos.
- teeter
- wave
- budge
- flutter
- gyrate
- palpitate
- quake
- quiver
- reel
- revolve
-
shake
- commove,
- dodder,
- joggle,
- set in motion,
- stir up,
- stirred up,
- Joggled,
- Joggling,
- Commoved,
- Commoving,
- joggles,
- commoves,
- dis compose,
- dis composes,
- dis composing,
- dis quiet,
- dis quieting,
- dis quiets,
- dis-compose,
- dis-composes,
- dis-composing,
- dis-quiet,
- dis-quieting,
- dis-quiets,
- set motion,
- sets in motion,
- sets motion,
- setting in motion,
- stirring up,
- stirs up,
- succussed,
- succusses,
- succussing,
- up sets,
- up setting,
- up-sets,
- up-setting.
-
shiver
- Pash,
- am cold,
- are cold,
- art cold,
- be cold,
- being cold,
- fragmentalize,
- fragmentalized,
- fragmentalizes,
- fragmentalizing,
- had quivers,
- had shakes,
- had the quivers,
- had the shakes,
- haddest quivers,
- haddest shakes,
- haddest the quivers,
- haddest the shakes,
- hadst quivers,
- hadst shakes,
- hadst the quivers,
- hadst the shakes,
- has quivers,
- has shakes,
- has the quivers,
- has the shakes,
- hast quivers,
- hast shakes,
- hast the quivers,
- hast the shakes,
- hath quivers,
- hath shakes,
- hath the quivers,
- hath the shakes,
- have quivers,
- have shakes,
- have the quivers,
- have the shakes,
- having quivers,
- having shakes,
- having the quivers,
- having the shakes,
- is cold,
- pashed,
- pashes,
- pashing,
- smash smithereens,
- smash to smithereens,
- smashed smithereens,
- smashed to smithereens,
- smashes smithereens,
- smashes to smithereens,
- smashing smithereens,
- smashing to smithereens,
- smattered,
- splinterize,
- splinterized,
- splinterizes,
- splinterizing,
- was cold,
- wast cold,
- were cold,
- wert cold.
-
throb
- beat.
- toss
- totter
-
turn
- come around,
- pass around,
- Arcked,
- Arcking,
- arcing,
- came around,
- comes around,
- coming around,
- go round,
- goes round,
- going round,
- hang a left,
- hang a right,
- hang left,
- hang right,
- hanged left,
- hanged right,
- hanging a left,
- hanging a right,
- hanging left,
- hanging right,
- hangs a left,
- hangs a right,
- hangs left,
- hangs right,
- hung a left,
- hung a right,
- hung left,
- made a left,
- made a right,
- made left,
- made right,
- make a left,
- make a right,
- make left,
- make right,
- makes a left,
- makes a right,
- makes left,
- makes right,
- making a left,
- making a right,
- making left,
- making right,
- move circle,
- move in circle,
- moved a circle,
- moves a circle,
- moves circle,
- moves in a circle,
- moving a circle,
- moving circle,
- moving in a circle,
- moving in circle,
- passed around,
- passes around,
- passing around,
- take a bend,
- take bend,
- takes a bend,
- took a bend,
- took bend,
- went round.
- twitch
-
wallow
- get stuck,
- splash around,
- bathe in,
- move around in,
- am immersed,
- are immersed,
- art immersed,
- bathed in,
- bathes in,
- bathing in,
- be immersed,
- being immersed,
- gat stuck,
- gets stuck,
- getting stuck,
- got stuck,
- gotten stuck,
- is immersed,
- moved around in,
- moves around in,
- moving around in,
- roll around in,
- rolled around in,
- rolling around in,
- splashed around,
- splashes around,
- splashing around,
- was immersed,
- wast immersed,
- were immersed,
- wert immersed.
-
waver
- be irresolute,
- am irresolute,
- am unable decide,
- am unable to decide,
- are irresolute,
- are unable decide,
- are unable to decide,
- art irresolute,
- art unable decide,
- art unable to decide,
- be unable decide,
- be unable to decide,
- being irresolute,
- being unable decide,
- being unable to decide,
- de liberate,
- de liberated,
- de liberates,
- de liberating,
- de-liberate,
- de-liberated,
- de-liberates,
- de-liberating,
- dilly dally,
- is unable decide,
- is unable to decide,
- pussyfoot around,
- pussyfooted around,
- pussyfooting around,
- ran hot and cold,
- ran hot cold,
- run hot and cold,
- run hot cold,
- running hot and cold,
- running hot cold,
- runs hot and cold,
- was irresolute,
- was unable to decide,
- wast irresolute,
- wast unable decide,
- wast unable to decide,
- were irresolute,
- were unable decide,
- were unable to decide,
- wert irresolute,
- wert unable decide,
- wert unable to decide.
- beat
- dislodge from staid position
- make insane
- anticipate with horror
- stumble, stutter
-
feel alarm; be scared of
- fear.
- wave rapidly, flap
- move toward with jerk
- perform, function
- change back and forth
- beat at a rapid pace, like a heart
- cower, shrink
- shake, vibrate
- shrink away
-
wobble; spin around
- reel.
- move back and forth
-
revolve, turn; proceed smoothly
- roll.
-
move rapidly, flowingly
- run.
- quiver, tremble
- shake, tremble
- shake, quiver
-
go around, make go around
- spin.
- wobble back and forth
- move falteringly
-
revolve, curve
- turn.
- have a spasm
- slosh around in
-
move back and forth; gesture
- wave.
- shift back and forth; be indecisive
- stagger, quake
-
beloved
- hate.
- beau
- all
- abiding
-
changeable
- commutative,
- reversible,
- revocable,
- shifting,
- transformable,
- transitional,
- unpredictable,
- Permutable,
- in decisive,
- in-decisive,
- more commutative,
- more fluctuating,
- more permutable,
- more reversible,
- more revocable,
- more shifting,
- more transformable,
- more transitional,
- most commutative,
- most fluctuating,
- most permutable,
- most reversible,
- most revocable,
- most shifting,
- most transformable,
- most transitional,
- re vocable,
- re-vocable,
- trans formable,
- trans-formable.
- changing
-
weak
- forceless,
- wimpy,
- faint-hearted,
- faint hearted,
- in effectual,
- in-effectual,
- laid back,
- laidback,
- more faint hearted,
- more faint-hearted,
- more forceless,
- more impuissant,
- more zero,
- most faint hearted,
- most forceless,
- most impuissant,
- most zero,
- out gas,
- out of gas,
- wimpiest,
- wishy washy,
- wishywashy.
-
capricious
- changeful,
- flighty,
- mercurial,
- mutable,
- quirky,
- temperamental,
- wayward,
- yo-yo,
- Humorsome,
- Vagarious,
- YOYO,
- oddest,
- any way the wind blows,
- any way wind blows,
- helter skelter,
- helterskelter,
- in-constant,
- more changeful,
- more humorsome,
- more vagarious,
- more yo yo,
- more yo-yo,
- more yoyo,
- most changeful,
- most humorsome,
- most vagarious,
- most yo yo,
- most yo-yo,
- most yoyo,
- up down,
- yo yo.
-
irregular
- nonuniform,
- unmethodical,
- unpunctual,
- Designless,
- de signless,
- de-signless,
- dis connected,
- dis continuous,
- dis-connected,
- dis-continuous,
- in discriminate,
- in frequent,
- in-discriminate,
- in-frequent,
- more designless,
- more faltering,
- more nonuniform,
- more unmethodical,
- more weaving,
- most designless,
- most faltering,
- most nonuniform,
- most unpunctual,
- most weaving,
- non uniform,
- non-uniform,
- out order,
- re current,
- re-current,
- un considered,
- un even,
- un methodical,
- un systematic,
- un-considered,
- un-even,
- un-methodical,
- un-systematic.
-
fickle
- quicksilver,
- more cheating,
- more double crossing,
- more double-crossing,
- more doublecrossing,
- more quicksilver,
- more two timing,
- more two-timing,
- more twotiming,
- most cheating,
- most double crossing,
- most double-crossing,
- most doublecrossing,
- most quicksilver,
- most two timing,
- most two-timing,
- most twotiming,
- un faithful,
- un true,
- un truer,
- un truest,
- un-faithful,
- un-true,
- un-truer,
- un-truest.
- dangerous
- unreliable
- ambulatory
- arbitrary
-
dizzy
- blinded,
- woozy,
- slap-happy,
- punchdrunk,
- off balance,
- be fuddled,
- be mused,
- be wildered,
- be-fuddled,
- be-mused,
- be-wildered,
- more dazzled,
- more slap happy,
- more slap-happy,
- more slaphappy,
- more staggered,
- more weak kneed,
- more weak-kneed,
- more weakkneed,
- most blinded,
- most dazzled,
- most slap happy,
- most slap-happy,
- most staggered,
- most weak-kneed,
- most weakkneed,
- out control,
- punch drunk,
- slap happy,
- up set,
- up-set,
- weak in knees,
- weak in the knees,
- weak kneed,
- weak knees,
- weak the knees,
- weakkneed.
- doubtful
- erratic
- flighty
- groggy
- inconsistent
- occasional
-
palsied
- arthritic,
- atonic,
- neurasthenic,
- rheumatic,
- sclerotic,
- spastic,
- tremorous,
- dis eased,
- dis-eased,
- more arthritic,
- more atonic,
- more neurasthenic,
- more rheumatic,
- more sclerotic,
- more spastic,
- more trembling,
- more tremorous,
- most arthritic,
- most atonic,
- most neurasthenic,
- most rheumatic,
- most sclerotic,
- most spastic,
- most trembling,
- most tremorous.
- precarious
- runaway
- shaking
-
shaky
- jellylike,
- shaky,
- unfirm,
- wobbly,
- all aquiver,
- aquake,
- ashake,
- more aquake,
- more ashake,
- more jellylike,
- more quaking,
- more unsupported,
- most aquake,
- most ashake,
- most jellylike,
- most quaking,
- most unsupported,
- not dependable,
- not reliable,
- not set,
- un clear,
- un clearest,
- un dependable,
- un firm,
- un firmer,
- un firmest,
- un supported,
- un-clear,
- un-clearest,
- un-dependable,
- un-firm,
- un-firmer,
- un-firmest,
- un-supported,
- unfirmer,
- unfirmest.
- steady
- temperamental
- unpredictable
- vacillating
- volatile
- wobbly
- woozy
- assiduous
- changeful
- crippled
-
insecure
- rootless,
- unshielded,
- open to attack,
- ex posed,
- ex-posed,
- in secure,
- in securer,
- in securest,
- in substantial,
- in-secure,
- in-securer,
- in-securest,
- in-substantial,
- more rootless,
- more unshielded,
- most rootless,
- most unshielded,
- open attack,
- un guarded,
- un safe,
- un safer,
- un safest,
- un shielded,
- un-guarded,
- un-protected,
- un-safe,
- un-safer,
- un-safest,
- un-shielded.
- jarring
- mercurial
- perilous
- rickety
- tremulous
-
unbalanced
- unglued,
- unscrewed,
- topheavy,
- nobody home,
- not all there,
- de ranged,
- de-ranged,
- dis proportionate,
- dis-proportionate,
- in sane,
- in saner,
- in sanest,
- in-sane,
- in-saner,
- more unglued,
- more unscrewed,
- more unsymmetrical,
- most unglued,
- most unscrewed,
- most unsymmetrical,
- not balanced,
- not there,
- out lunch,
- top heavy,
- un equal,
- un glued,
- un hinged,
- un screwed,
- un symmetrical,
- un-balanced,
- un-equal,
- un-glued,
- un-hinged,
- un-screwed,
- un-symmetrical.
-
uneasy
- anguished,
- on the qui vive,
- palpitant,
- all nerves,
- in turmoil,
- dis composed,
- dis mayed,
- dis quieted,
- dis-composed,
- dis-mayed,
- dis-quieted,
- more anguished,
- more discomposed,
- more dismayed,
- more disquieted,
- more harassed,
- more tormented,
- more vexed,
- most anguished,
- most dismayed,
- most disquieted,
- most harassed,
- most tormented,
- most vexed,
- on qui vive,
- un easier,
- un easiest,
- un easy,
- un quiet,
- un-easier,
- un-easiest,
- un-quiet,
- un-quietest.
- unsettled
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
-
wayward
- cross-grained,
- self-willed,
- Crossgrained,
- cross grained,
- dis obedient,
- dis-obedient,
- in corrigible,
- in subordinate,
- in tractable,
- in-corrigible,
- in-subordinate,
- in-tractable,
- more crossgrained,
- more self willed,
- more self-willed,
- most cross grained,
- most cross-grained,
- most crossgrained,
- most self willed,
- most self-willed,
- most selfwilled,
- self indulgent,
- self willed,
- selfindulgent,
- un compliant,
- un-compliant,
- un-governable.
- whimsical, chance
- marked by opposite extremes
- given to sudden behavior change
- light-headed, confused
- unpredictable; wandering
- vacillating, blowing hot and cold
- dizzy, stunned
- unstable/unsteady
- contradictory, irregular
- dangerous, precarious
- tricky, doubtful
- rugged, stony
- out of control
- complicated, difficult
- not even, stable
- not trustworthy, not true
- bothered, upset
- not well; flimsy
- explosive, changeable
-
not strong
- weak.
-
Other relevant words
- flickering,
- jerking,
- palpitating,
- quavering,
- faltering,
- shivering,
- ripped,
- aflicker,
- falteringly,
- uncertainly,
- unsteadily,
- apathetic,
- debatable,
- deceitful,
- dishonest,
- dispassionate,
- disputable,
- dodgy,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fishy,
- fleeting,
- hesitant,
- irresponsible,
- kaleidoscopic,
- lying,
- mendacious,
- momentary,
- nonuniform,
- phantasmagoric,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- shady,
- suspect,
- transient,
- transitory,
- unconfirmed,
- undependable,
- unexpected,
- uninterested,
- unreliable,
- unsafe,
- unsound,
- untried,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- unusual,
- vacillating,
- wavering,
- Doubtable.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
un-friendlinesses
- Antonyms:
- accord, affection, agreement.
