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Synonyms for affair
əˈfɛəraf·fair

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. affair

    Conflict is a general word which describes opponents, whether individuals or hosts, as dashed together. One continuous conflict between entire armies is a battle. Another battle may be fought upon the same field after a considerable interval; or a new battle may follow immediately, the armies meeting upon a new field. An action is brief and partial; a battle may last for days. Engagement is a somewhat formal expression for battle; as, it was the commander's purpose to avoid a general engagement. A protracted war, including many battles, may be a stubborn contest. Combat, originally a hostile encounter between individuals, is now used also for extensive engagements. A skirmish is between small detachments or scattered troops. An encounter may be either purposed or accidental, between individuals or armed forces. Fight is a word of less dignity than battle; we should not ordinarily speak of Waterloo as a fight, unless where the word is used in the sense of fighting; as, I was in the thick of the fight.

    Synonyms:
    action, battle, bout, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, engagement, fight, passage of arms, skirmish, strife

    Antonyms:
    armistice, concord, peace, suspension of hostilities, truce

    Preposition:
    A battle of giants; battle between armies; a battle for life, against invaders; a battle to the death; the battle of (more rarely at) Marathon.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.3 / 3 votes

  1. affair

    Synonyms:
    matter, business, concern, subject, topic, transaction

    Antonyms:
    detail, item, point, feature, circumstance

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. matter, affair, thingnoun

    a vaguely specified concern

    "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"

    Synonyms:
    issue, liaison, affaire, thing, topic, intimacy, function, social occasion, social function, matter, amour, subject, involvement, occasion

  2. affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amournoun

    a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

    Synonyms:
    affaire, social function, engagement, amour, involution, participation, function, matter, inter-group communication, liaison, thing, occasion, involvement, familiarity, social occasion, link, intimacy, closeness, contact, interest

  3. affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social functionnoun

    a vaguely specified social event

    "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"

    Synonyms:
    routine, map, subprogram, single-valued function, social function, use, procedure, amour, subroutine, role, function, matter, social occasion, liaison, thing, occasion, involvement, juncture, affaire, part, intimacy, purpose, mathematical function, office, mapping

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. affairnoun

    Synonyms:
    business, concern, matter, circumstance, question, subject

  2. affairnoun

    Synonyms:
    event, occurrence, incident, transaction, proceeding, performance

  3. affairnoun

    Synonyms:
    battle, engagement, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, rencontre, collision, skirmish, brush

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "affair":

    adventure, case, matter, liaison, aventure, issue, fling, mistress, bond, conjunction

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#10032liaison
#12920bout
#18908familiarity
#18966subroutine
#20144intimacy
#22090amour
#24177strife
#32886fling
#39155closeness
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#48737skirmish
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#77402involution

How to use affair in a sentence?

  1. Prime Minister Tamam Salam:

    We hope to have closed this chapter of an affair in the shadow of disruptions the country has endured and in the context of a tense political situation.

  2. That Stonehouse:

    Philip Athill was Philip Athill and an observer, philip Athill was illegitimate and was brought up largely by Philip Athill mother in France, and it later emerged that Philip Athill was gay when Philip Athill had an affair with a male Swedish film star.

  3. Melissa Stockwell:

    Those soldiers that go over to protect our freedom, they sacrifice so much to go over but it’s also the loved ones back home, i mean you tell someone thank you for your service but it’s a family affair.You have the caregivers back home, the spouses, the children – it’s an all-encompassing sacrifice.

  4. Joe Tacopina:

    This was a plain extortion. And I don’t know, since when we’ve decided to start prosecuting extortion victims. He’s denied, vehemently denied, this affair.

  5. Michael Cohen:

    My family's happiness, my law license. You know, I lost my business. ... I lost everything, my insurance, my bank accounts. All for what ? All for what ? Because Donald Trump, you know, had an affair with a porn star ? That's really what this is about.


Translations for affair

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  • علاقة غراميةArabic
  • въпрос, схватка, връзка, дело, работаBulgarian
  • poměr, záležitostCzech
  • Ding, Scharmützel, Affäre, Angelegenheit, BeziehungGerman
  • ερωτοδουλειά, συμπλοκή, ζήτημα, πατέντα, υπόθεση, ερωτική σχέση, θέμαGreek
  • aĵo, aferoEsperanto
  • amorío, asunto, aventura, negocioSpanish
  • esine, selkkaus, asia, syrjähyppyFinnish
  • liaison, aventureFrench
  • רומן, פרשהHebrew
  • affareItalian
  • 恋愛関係, 不倫, 事件, 情事Japanese
  • ಸಂಬಂಧKannada
  • 불륜Korean
  • sakNorwegian
  • romansPolish
  • caso, negócio, afazer, coisaPortuguese
  • afacereRomanian
  • афера, схватка, связь, боестолкновение, интрига, романRussian
  • aferaSerbo-Croatian
  • விவகாரம்Tamil
  • udaba, indabaZulu

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