Antonyms for conquest
ˈkɒn kwɛst, ˈkɒŋ-con·quest

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1. conquest

   Victory is the state resulting from the overcoming of an opponent or opponents in any contest, or from the overcoming of difficulties, obstacles, evils, etc., considered as opponents or enemies. In the latter sense any hard-won achievement, advantage, or success may be termed a victory. In conquest and mastery there is implied a permanence of state that is not implied in victory. Triumph, originally denoting the public rejoicing in honor of a victory, has come to signify also a peculiarly exultant, complete, and glorious victory. Compare CONQUER.

   Antonyms:
   defeat, destruction, disappointment, disaster, failure, frustration, miscarriage, overthrow, retreat, rout

   Synonyms:
   achievement, advantage, mastery, success, supremacy, triumph, victory

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1. conquest

   Antonyms:
   failure, defeat, retreat, surrender, forfeiture, submission, discomfiture

   Synonyms:
   victory, triumph, overthrow, discomfiture, subjugation

Matched Categories

1. • Capture
   • Success

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conquest, conquering, subjection, subjugationnoun

   the act of conquering

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, conquering, subjection, oppression, seduction

2. conquestnoun

   success in mastering something difficult

   "the conquest of space"

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, conquering, subjection, seduction

3. seduction, conquestnoun

   an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, conquering, subjection, seduction

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1. conquestnoun

   Synonyms:
   subjection, subjugation, victory, mastery, triumph, reduction, overthrow, rout

How to use conquest in a sentence?

1. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness:

   The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

2. Helen Rowland:

   Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

3. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

4. Virgil:

   In the conquest of the Greeks they in return conquered the conquerors

5. Peter Pal Varga:

   This is a period of conquest for private clinics.

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