Synonyms and antonyms (K)

Synonyms are two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context, opposite of antonym.

• Keen

Syn.: eager, vehement, sharp, piercing, penetrating, acute, cutting, biting, severe, sarcastic, satirical, ardent, prompt, shrewd.
antonym(s): indifferent, languid, blunt, dull, blind.

• Keep

Syn.: hold, restrain, retain, detain, guard, preserve, suppress, repress, conceal, tend, support, maintain, conduct, continue, obey, haunt, observe, frequent, celebrate, protect, adhere to, practise, binder, sustain.
antonym(s): release, acquit, liberate, send, dismiss, betrnj^, neglect, divulge, discard, abandon, intermit, disobey, disregard, transgress, forsake, desert, oblivate.

• Keeper, see keep.
• Keeping

Syn.: care, guardianship, maintenance, custody, see care.

• Keepsake

Syn.: souvenir, remembrancer, a gift of affection.

• Ken

Syn.: view, survey, knowledge, cognizance.
antonym(s): oversight, ignorance, incognizance, inobservance, inexperience, discredulity.

• Kernel, see cork.
• Key

Syn.: clew, guide, explanation, solution, see explanation.

• Kick

Syn.: oaloitrate, rebel, resist, spurn.
antonym(s): caress, soothe, flatter, obey, yield.

• Kill

Syn.: slay, murder, assassinate, destroy, slaughter, butcher, immolate, massacre, deaden, put to death, despatch.
antonym(s): resuscitate, revivify, vivify, reanimate.

• Kin

Syn.: race, kindred, offspring, kind, family, sort, ilk, genus, kidney, class, relationship, consanguinity, kinsfolk, blood.
antonym(s): foreignership, strangership, disconnection, inaffinity, irrelation.

• Kind

Syn.: style, character, [[<laeriptkm]], designation, denomination, genus, species, sort, class, nature, set, breed.
antonym(s): see kin, see dissimilarity.

• Kind

Syn.: benevolent, benign, tender, indulgent, humane, clement, lenient, compassionate, gentle, good, gracious, forbearing, kind-hearted.
antonym(s): unkind, harsh, severe, cruel, hard, illiberal.

• Kindle

Syn.: light, ignite, excite, inflame.
antonym(s): extinguish, suppress, quench, allay, kindness, see kind.

• Kindred, see kin.
• Kindred

Syn.: congenial, allied, cogitate, akin, related.
antonym(s): uncongenial, unallied, unrelated.

• Kingdom

Syn.: empire, realm, dominion, sovereignty, monarchy.

• Kingly

Syn.: royal, regal, imperial, magnificent, noble.
antonym(s): see magnificent.

• Knave

Syn.: hogue, cheat, rascal, villain, miscreant, scoundrel.
antonym(s): true-penny, gentleman, innocent, dupe, simpleton, gull, oaf.

• Knavery, see knave

Syn.: #n/a, fraudulent, villainous, dishonest, see fallible.

• Knit, see join and interlace.
• Knot

Syn.: tie, bond, intricacy, difficulty, perplexity, cluster, collection, band, group, protuberance, joint.
antonym(s): loosening, unfastening, dissolution, solution, explication, unravelling, dispersion, multitude, crowd, indentation, evenness, smoothness, cavity.

• Knotty

Syn.: tough, bard, difficult, complicated.
antonym(s): plain, simple, easy, obvious.

• Know

Syn.: perceive, understand, comprehend, recognize, apprehend, distinguish, see perceive.

• Knowing

Syn.: shrewd, -instate, discerning, sharp, acute, sagacious, penetrating, proficient, skillful, intelligent, experienced, well-informed, accomplished.
antonym(s): simple, dull, innocent, gullible, undiscerning, stolid, siuy.

• Knowledge

Syn.: apprehension, comprehension, recognition, understanding, conversance, experience, acquaintance, familiarity, cognizance, notice, information, instruction, see [[le*I--'-ing] ]], enlightenment, scholarship, attainments, acquirements.
antonym(s): misapprehension, inobservance, incomprehension, misunderstanding, misconception, inconversance, inexperience, ignorance, unfamiliarity, incognizance, misinformation, deception, misinstruction, uneducatedness, untutoredness, rudeness, illiterateness.

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