Antonyms for earn
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WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. earnverb

   To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward

   My CD earns me six percent!

   Synonyms:
   make, render, yield, generate

2. earnverb

   Synonyms:
   merit, win, garner, deserve

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. earn

   A person may obtain a situation by the intercession of friends, he procures a dinner by paying for it. Attain is a lofty word, pointing to some high or desirable result; a man attains the mountain summit, he attains honor or learning as the result of strenuous and earnest labor. Even that usage of attain which has been thought to refer to mere progress of time carries the thought of a result desired; as, to attain to old age; the man desires to live to a good old age; we should not speak of his attaining his dotage. One may attain an object that will prove not worth his labor, but what he achieves is in itself great and splendid; as, the Greeks at Marathon achieved a glorious victory. Compare DO; GET; REACH.

   Antonyms:
   abandon, fail, forfeit, give up, let go, lose, miss

   Synonyms:
   accomplish, achieve, acquire, arrive at, attain, compass, gain, get, grasp, master, obtain, procure, reach, secure, win

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. earn

   Antonyms:
   forfeit, forego, waste, lose, spend, squander

   Synonyms:
   merit, acquire, achieve, obtain, win, gain, deserve, realize

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring inverb

   earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages

   "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month"

   Synonyms:
   wee-wee, cause, receive, bring in, attract, make, arrive at, top, light up, recognise, draw, stool, have, solve, piddle, hold, overhear, draw in, sack, cod, unclutter, absorb, agnize, clear up, invite, garner, do, consume, stimulate, pull, actualize, exculpate, assimilate, sort out, defecate, lay down, bring, make water, crystalise, name, pass water, actualise, exonerate, gull, make headway, crystalize, create, crap, collect, get to, pretend, cook, fool, suck, gain, build, authorize, assoil, adopt, gather, understand, crystallise, straighten out, establish, pee, discharge, realize, sop up, constitute, make up, introduce, take up, give, attain, see, pull in, urinate, take, form, derive, catch, befool, benefit, net, acquit, substantiate, wee, ca-ca, pull ahead, get, recognize, prepare, suck in, micturate, soak up, agnise, watch, throw, advance, profit, reach, take a shit, get ahead, illuminate, score, view, piss, sack up, make believe, induce, dupe, ingest, brighten, put on, pee-pee, ready, shit, relieve oneself, fetch, spend a penny, elucidate, take in, gather in, enlighten, puddle, take a crap, clear, hit, produce, slang, gain ground, crystallize, acquire, suck up, move in, progress to, take a leak, authorise, get in, win, put one across, pass, put one over, nominate, shed light on, work, fix, realise, imbibe, seduce, construct

2. earn, garnerverb

   acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

   Synonyms:
   gain, garner, pull together, realise, realize, make, collect, gather, take in, bring in, clear, pull in

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spend

   spend on something; give away something

   she didn't spend money on toys

   Submitted by rinat on May 10, 2016  

2. raffle

   because in raffle we get money by luck so opposite will be getting money by hard work that is earn

   we should try to earn money despite depending on raffles

   Submitted by anonymous on November 19, 2019  

3. spend

   earn means not spend the money on product

   Submitted by anonymous on December 18, 2019  

How to use earn in a sentence?

1. French Open:

   Overall it was a pretty clean performance, it's difficult to come out against a player like Maria Sharapova. Maria Sharapova's an incredible champion, Maria Sharapova knows how to fight and Maria Sharapova makes you earn every single point.

2. Ogden Nash:

   If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

3. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   All work is dignified. It allows you to add value to this society, to earn your keep not live off the hard work of others, as I mentioned in the beginning, the Democrats are separating people from the dignity of work. They know and they don't care. They are destroying this country. They are now the party of anti-work. Not only that, they want to cause public chaos, too. We have street chaos, crime is erupting liberal cities all over this country right now.

4. Barack Obama:

   Charlie was the first African-American to earn a PGA tour card – often facing indignity and injustice even as he faced the competition, though his best golf was already behind him, he proved that he belonged... blazing a trail for future generations of athletes in America.

5. Matt Barnes:

   It keeps happening, some of these I earn, some of them I don't.

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