Antonyms for mistress
ˈmɪs trɪsmis·tress

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. mistressnoun

   Synonyms:
   comaré, fancy woman, head, bit on the side, schoolmarm, leader, goomah, boss

2. mistressnoun

   a woman, specifically one with control, authority or ownership

   She was the mistress of the mansion, and owned the horses.

   Synonyms:
   comaré, schoolmarm, leader, boss, fancy woman, bit on the side, goomah, head

3. mistressnoun

   a female teacher

   games mistress

   Synonyms:
   leader, boss, goomah, fancy woman, bit on the side, head, comaré, schoolmarm

4. mistressnoun

   a female partner in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

   Synonyms:
   bit on the side, leader, schoolmarm, goomah, boss, fancy woman, comaré, head

5. mistressnoun

   a dominatrix

   Synonyms:
   comaré, head, boss, goomah, bit on the side, schoolmarm, fancy woman, leader

Matched Categories

1. • Employer
   • Lover
   • Schoolteacher
   • Woman

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mistress, kept woman, fancy womannoun

   an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

   Synonyms:
   cocotte, lady of pleasure, working girl, fancy woman, prostitute, whore, woman of the street, cyprian, schoolmistress, kept woman, sporting lady, tart, bawd, schoolmarm, harlot, schoolma'am

2. schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistressnoun

   a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

   Synonyms:
   schoolma'am, schoolmistress, schoolmarm, fancy woman, kept woman

3. mistressnoun

   a woman master who directs the work of others

   Synonyms:
   schoolmarm, schoolmistress, schoolma'am, fancy woman, kept woman

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1. mistressnoun

   Synonyms:
   matron, superior, sweetheart, flame, dulcinea, ladylove, amaryllis, paramour, concubine, demirep, lorette, delilah, phryne, corotte

How to use mistress in a sentence?

1. Daily Mail reviewer Quentin Letts:

   Figures in black balaclavas assist in the humiliation. With mistress-of-stunts Katie Mitchell directing, we have, from the start, ambient noise, honking klaxons, cage doors clanking, fizzing strip-lights -- no cliche is spared.

2. Gero Neugebauer:

   It is now up to Merkel to cut the Gordian knot and give a clear signal internally and externally that Germany cannot take in refugees without limits, and that she is still the mistress of the house.

3. Wesley D'Amico:

   Whoever marries his mistress has no right to separate for treason.”

4. William Hazlitt:

   We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

5. Nina Turner:

   For far too long the African-American community has been the mistress of the Democratic Party. I'm gonna put that out there, i'm a proud Democrat. I am loyal, but I am not blindly loyal.

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