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Antonyms for minus
ˈmaɪ nəsmi·nus

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  1. minuspreposition

    Antonyms:
    bonus, boon, advantage, plus, positive, gain

    Synonyms:
    zero, negative, below, lacking, without, deficiency, flaw, defect, drawback, shortcoming

  2. minusadjective

    without.

    a minus number

    Antonyms:
    gain, advantage, bonus, positive, boon, plus

    Synonyms:
    without, negative, below, zero, lacking, flaw, deficiency, drawback, shortcoming, defect

  3. minusnoun

    A negative quantity.

    minus seven degrees

    Antonyms:
    boon, gain, positive, plus, bonus, advantage

    Synonyms:
    below, deficiency, drawback, flaw, shortcoming, defect, zero, negative

  4. minusnoun

    Ranking just below a designated rating.

    He got a grade of B minus for his essay.

    Synonyms:
    flaw, deficiency, zero, below, negative, drawback, shortcoming, defect

    Antonyms:
    boon, positive, bonus, gain, plus, advantage

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. subtraction, minusadjective

    an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated

    "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

    Antonyms:
    nonnegative, advantageous, positive, plus

    Synonyms:
    subtraction, deduction

  2. minusadjective

    on the negative side or lower end of a scale

    "minus 5 degrees"; "a grade of B minus"

    Antonyms:
    positive, advantageous, nonnegative, plus

    Synonyms:
    negative

  3. minus, negativeadjective

    involving disadvantage or harm

    "minus (or negative) factors"

    Antonyms:
    plus, positive, nonnegative, advantageous

    Synonyms:
    electronegative, disconfirming, negative, negatively charged, damaging

How to use minus in a sentence?

  1. Simon Hanks:

    Essentially, it is an extremely efficient heat exchanging system, which will effectively mount on the front of our new engine design and very efficiently cool incoming air of a very high temperature of about a thousand degrees C [Centigrade], to minus 150 degrees C in a fraction of a second; approximately one-hundredth of a second.

  2. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich:

    The only minus is the external political uncertainty, but money is more important for companies than this consideration.

  3. Aleksandar Vulin:

    Right now it’s summer, we can put them in tents and they can hold out, but what are we going to do with women, children, the elderly, the sick ... when it’s minus 20?

  4. Steve King:

    There are a half a dozen candidates, plus or minus a little bit, that I would put their names in a hat and draw one out and be really happy as a replacement to the president we have today.

  5. Mignon McLaughlin:

    In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

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#844plus
#1467positive
#2419advantage
#2491gain
#2844bonus
#7996minus
#23212advantageous
#23736boon
#54865nonnegative

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