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Antonyms for afford
əˈfɔrd, əˈfoʊrdaf·ford
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
afford
Bear is the most general of these words; it is metaphorically to hold up or keep up a burden of care, pain, grief, annoyance, or the like, without sinking, lamenting, or repining. Allow and permit involve large concession of the will; put up with and tolerate imply decided aversion and reluctant withholding of opposition or interference; whispering is allowed by the school-teacher who does not forbid nor censure it; one puts up with the presence of a disagreeable visitor; a state tolerates a religion which it would be glad to suppress. To endure is to bear with strain and resistance, but with conscious power; endure conveys a fuller suggestion of contest and conquest than bear. One may choose to endure the pain of a surgical operation rather than take anesthetics; he permits the thing to come which he must brace himself to endure when it comes. To afford is to be equal to a pecuniary demand, i. e., to be able to bear it. To brook is quietly to put up with provocation or insult. Abide combines the senses of await and endure; as, I will abide the result. Compare ABIDE; SUPPORT.
Antonyms:
break, break down, despair, droop, fail, faint, fall, falter, give out, give up, sink, succumb, surrender, yieldSynonyms:
abide, allow, bear, bear up under, bear with, brook, endure, permit, put up with, submit to, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate, undergo
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Princeton's WordNet
affordverb
be able to spare or give up
"I can't afford to spend two hours with this person"
yield, give, affordverb
be the cause or source of
"He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
Synonyms:
commit, chip in, dedicate, succumb, cave in, relent, impart, pass, pass on, move over, return, establish, reach, concede, have, give in, fall in, make, give, collapse, throw, gift, kick in, feed, break, ease up, apply, cede, grant, knuckle under, founder, devote, hold, buckle under, render, soften, present, sacrifice, yield, open, turn over, leave, give way, consecrate, generate, contribute, pay, hand, bearaffordverb
have the financial means to do something or buy something
"We can't afford to send our children to college"; "Can you afford this car?"
afford, open, giveverb
afford access to
"the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace"
Synonyms:
commit, chip in, dedicate, cave in, collapse, spread, impart, spread out, move over, return, establish, reach, present, have, fall in, make, pay, unfold, grant, throw, gift, kick in, feed, break, pass on, ease up, apply, give, open up, open, founder, devote, hold, pass, render, sacrifice, yield, turn over, leave, give way, consecrate, generate, contribute, hand
How to use afford in a sentence?
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
For young people to have the ability to afford an education — what a great way to attract new talent.
The people that can afford to fly business and first are the people that go to two - and three-star Michelin restaurants, the volumes we buy means we can afford to buy really good wines and share them with our passengers.
Florida’s actually a textbook example of what’s wrong with ObamaCare. … Florida can’t afford ObamaCare anymore, the ObamaCare nightmare is about to end.
We reach out to survivors who would not have been motivated to come on their own and reimburse their travel costs, as many would otherwise not be able to afford the journey, oNE VOICE, ONE SPIRIT.
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