Antonyms for community
kəˈmyu nɪ ticom·mu·ni·ty

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. community

   We speak of an alliance of nations, a club of pleasure-seekers, a community of Shakers, a company of soldiers or of friends, a confederacy, confederation, federation, or union of separate states under one general government, a partnership or company of business men, a conjunction of planets. The whole body of Freemasons constitute a fraternity; one of their local organizations is called a lodge. A corporation or company is formed for purposes of business; an association or society (tho also incorporated) is for learning, literature, benevolence, religion, etc. Compare ASSOCIATE; ACQUAINTANCE; FRIENDSHIP.

   Antonyms:
   disintegration, independence, isolation, separation, solitude

   Synonyms:
   alliance, association, club, companionship, company, confederacy, confederation, conjunction, connection, corporation, familiarity, federation, fellowship, fraternity, friendship, lodge, participation, partnership, society, union

   Preposition:
   An association of scholars for the advancement of knowledge; association with the good is ennobling.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

1. community

   Antonyms:
   segregation, secession, independence, dissociation, disconnection, rivalry, hostility, animosity, estrangement, dissimilarity, contrariance, heterogeneity

   Synonyms:
   aggregation, association, commonwealth, co-ordination, society, sympathy, order, class, brotherhood, fraternity, polity, unity, nationality, similarity, homogeneity

Matched Categories

1. • Agreement
   • District
   • Ecology
   • Gathering
   • Group
   • Ownership
   • World Organization

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 4 votes

1. communitynoun

   a group of people living in a particular local area

   "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

2. communitynoun

   common ownership

   "they shared a community of possessions"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

3. communitynoun

   a group of nations having common interests

   "they hoped to join the NATO community"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

4. community, community of interestsnoun

   agreement as to goals

   "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

5. residential district, residential area, communitynoun

   a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

6. community, biotic communitynoun

   (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

How to use community in a sentence?

1. Jane Gilbert:

   My role is to really better understand the risks — current and in the future, and secondly, engage community-wide stakeholders in forming solutions.

2. An Instagram post:

   Please join us in whatever Jeep you drive. New, old and everything in between! Lets show Kendricks family the love from our Jeep community to them.

3. William Schaffner:

   They're protected against a paralytic disease, but they can still harbor the virus and spread it to others. And that's the circumstance we have now in New York, so you could get essentially the entire community carrying this virus in their intestines, but they don't even know it's there.

4. Peter Gridling:

   We are talking about a community of hundreds of people. But fewer than 1,000.

5. Shelby Steele:

   I suppose looking back from today, it was a kind of golden age, almost. This was after the war post-50s, 60s. The government had no interest in socially engineering black Americans anywhere. We were pretty much left to our own devices within the boundaries of segregation. So we were limited in that regard, and yet within the community itself, there was an ethos of responsibility and a new possibility in a post-war community. And so the focus was on what we could do for ourselves, and we did many great things. On the street I grew up, a friend down at the end of the block, his name was Melvin Van Peebles — he invented independent filmmaking in America, in the world.

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