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- Dictionaryboon/buːn/
noun
- 1. a thing that is helpful or beneficial: "the route will be a boon to many travellers"
- 2. a favour or request. archaic
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Apr 4, 2014 · Definition of 'Boom And Bust Cycle'. A process of economic expansion and contraction that occurs repeatedly. The boom and bust cycle is a key characteristic of today’s capitalist economies. During the boom the economy grows, jobs are plentiful and the market brings high returns to investors.
Dec 31, 2016 · I just have it in my mind that it needs to be along the same lines as Bane, which, in my opinion, is a rather exotic word. The problem is that I don't actually know what I'm looking for, I just know what it should be like. And boon seems to be leaning more towards the same spectrum of Bane, which is rather ambiguous in my opinion. –
Dec 27, 2011 · The definition for backronym in the Oxford US Dictionary online sheds some light on the antonym for acronym: a fanciful expansion of an existing acronym or word, such as “port out, starboard home” for posh. Notice that it is "a fanciful expansion". This seems to indicate that the antonym for acronym is expansion, based on backronym's ...
Wiktionary records uncapitalize with usage examples.. Verb uncapitalize (third-person singular simple present uncapitalizes, present participle uncapitalizing, simple past and past participle uncapitalized)
The only antonym for postpone reported in the thesaurus is bring forward. – avpaderno. Mar 1, 2011 at 21:35. 2. I apparently thing of forward and back differently than you. "Postpone" seem to more relate to "bring forward" (i.e. forward more to the future) and whatever the opposite seems to relate more to "bring back". – Peter Olson.
3. I am looking for a conventional antonym for peak hour. As far as I've seen, the term off-peak hours is used. Still, to me this means any hour that is not the peak hour, which is not necessarily the hour with the least clients or activity in a business. Here is an example sentence:
May 26, 2011 · 0. I don't think there's an antonym for "sub" since we use "sub" to talk about something which is a level down from something else. For example, "sub-category" is a category within a category. If you have to go further, you may use "sub-sub category." But in the end, the only category above all of these is simply a "category."
Feb 25, 2012 · The antonym would probably be someone who likes women. That would be a philogynist (from phileô, "to like"), but I don't think that word exists. There is also a philanderer, a man who likes to court women a little too much. This word is a bit strange, since ander-comes from anêr, "man".
Jan 24, 2021 · Found this online; sounds like Bane may have been the source of pain for Scots and others. Donald Bane, also spelled Donaldbane, or Donalbane, Bane also spelled Ban or Bain (born c. 1033—died after 1097), king of Scotland from November 1093 to May 1094 and from November 1094 to October 1097, son of Duncan I.
I don't think there is an antonym that ends with an -iorate because the words ameliorate and meliorate derive from a single stem (see below). The closest etymological antonym is aggravate. ameliorate comes from French meilleur and ameliorer - the direct French antonym for this word is aggraver meaning 'to make worse'.
