Antonyms for confront
kənˈfrʌntcon·front

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. confront

   To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

   Antonyms:
   abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

   Synonyms:
   abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, continue, dwell, endure, expect, inhabit, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watch

   Preposition:
   Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. confront

   Antonyms:
   rally, encourage, abet, countenance

   Synonyms:
   oppose, face, encounter, resist, intimidate, menace

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. confront, faceverb

   oppose, as in hostility or a competition

   "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other"

   Antonyms:
   avoid

   Synonyms:
   present, face, front, look, face up

2. confront, face up, faceverb

   deal with (something unpleasant) head on

   "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"

   Antonyms:
   avoid

   Synonyms:
   present, face, front, look, face up

3. confront, face, presentverb

   present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize

   "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us"

   Antonyms:
   avoid

   Synonyms:
   portray, demonstrate, demo, deliver, acquaint, represent, pose, give, lay out, front, look, face up, award, introduce, present, exhibit, face, stage, salute, gift, show, submit

4. confrontverb

   be face to face with

   "The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume"

   Antonyms:
   avoid

   Synonyms:
   present, face, face up

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. evade

   escape or avoid ( someone or something ), especially by guile or trickery

   friends helped him to evade capture for time

   Submitted by rinat on September 23, 2019  

How to use confront in a sentence?

1. Richard Ledgett:

   The President missed a prime opportunity to confront Putin face-to-face and assert with some level of forcefulness that we know that you did this and here's what we are going to do if you don't stop.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   Yesterday morning, a violent man broke into our family home, demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul.Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop. We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the life-saving medical care he is receiving.

3. Steny Hoyer:

   We don't want to do it just individually, you know, Individual A, Individual B, Individual C. We want to confront this refusal by the administration to cooperate with the constitutional mandate that the Congress has oversight, so we're discussing that, and we haven't made that decision yet. And we haven't gotten all the catalogs yet in terms of how many specific refusals there have been, and rather than try to deal with each one of them individually, we may deal with them collectively.

4. Iowa Paul:

   In our country, even if you are a terrible person, if you are murderer or a rapist, you are accused, but then you're given a chance to confront tour accusers. The burden is on the government. There has to be a burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt.

5. Goldman Sachs:

   We think the prime minister will re-engage in Brexit negotiations with the EU, aiming to confront MPs in late October with a binary choice between a Brexit deal and a pre-Brexit general election.

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