Antonyms for cloy
klɔɪcloy

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1. cloyverb

   To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

   Synonyms:
   stuff up, gorge, satisfy, sate, fill up, glut, stodge, satiate, stuff

2. cloyverb

   To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

   Synonyms:
   surfeit, jade, pall, sicken, nauseate

3. cloyverb

   Synonyms:
   fill, stop up, block up, choke, fill up, stuff, stuff up, block

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1. cloy

   To satisfy is to furnish just enough to meet physical, mental, or spiritual desire. To sate or satiate is to gratify desire so fully as for a time to extinguish it. To cloy or surfeit is to gratify to the point of revulsion or disgust. Glut is a strong but somewhat coarse word applied to the utmost satisfaction of vehement appetites and passions; as, to glut a vengeful spirit with slaughter; we speak of glutting the market with a supply so excessive as to extinguish the demand. Much less than is needed to satisfy may suffice a frugal or abstemious person; less than a sufficiency may content one of a patient and submissive spirit. Compare PAY; REQUITE.

   Antonyms:
   check, deny, disappoint, refuse, restrain, restrict, starve, stint, straiten, tantalize

   Synonyms:
   content, fill, glut, sate, satiate, satisfy, suffice, surfeit

   Preposition:
   Satisfy with food, with gifts, etc.; satisfy one (in the sense of make satisfaction) for labors and sacrifices; satisfy oneself by or upon inquiry.

Matched Categories

1. • Satiate
   • Supply

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. surfeit, cloyverb

   supply or feed to surfeit

   Synonyms:
   surfeit, pall

2. cloy, pallverb

   cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing

   "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"

   Synonyms:
   weary, dull, become flat, fatigue, scare, scare off, pall, die, tire, frighten away, surfeit, scare away, daunt, frighten off, dash, jade

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1. cloyverb

   Synonyms:
   satiate, glut, surfeit, pall, sate

How to use cloy in a sentence?

1. Juvenal:

   The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

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