Antonyms for asylum
əˈsaɪ ləmasy·lum

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1. asylumnoun

   Synonyms:
   shelter, sanctuary

2. asylumnoun

   A place of safety

   Synonyms:
   shelter, sanctuary

3. asylumnoun

   The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.

   Synonyms:
   sanctuary, shelter

4. asylumnoun

   A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.

   Synonyms:
   shelter, sanctuary

Matched Categories

1. • Hospital
   • Shelter

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. refuge, sanctuary, asylumnoun

   a shelter from danger or hardship

   Synonyms:
   insane asylum, chancel, sanctuary, resort, mental institution, mental hospital, bema, institution, recourse, refuge, psychiatric hospital, mental home, safety

2. mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylumnoun

   a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

   Synonyms:
   foundation, mental home, instauration, creation, psychiatric hospital, sanctuary, mental hospital, refuge, insane asylum, mental institution, institution, founding, innovation, initiation, origination, introduction, establishment

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. asylumnoun

   Synonyms:
   retreat, sanctuary

How to use asylum in a sentence?

1. Mike Brickner:

   The DHS’s decision to partner with private prisons sends a horrible message about profiteering at the expense of individuals seeking asylum, during ICE detention, these people have been subject to abuse and mistreatment. Incentivizing private companies to detain people for profit only exacerbates our criminal justice system problems. To allow more people to be incarcerated for a profit in Ohio sends our state in the wrong direction.

2. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls:

   Asylum seekers need to be distributed among EU states more fairly.

3. Katerina Kitidi:

   It's a gateway to information, and a gateway to the right of services like the asylum procedures.

4. Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern:

   Isolationism and the belief that one can magically make the asylum issue disappear ... is an illusion.

5. Enrique Lucero:

   They are trying to cross to the United States to [seek] asylum.

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