Antonyms for erect

Antonyms for (verb) erect

Main entry: set up, put up, raise, rear, erect

Definition: construct, build, or erect

Usage: Raise a barn

Antonyms: rase, raze, pull down, dismantle, take down, tear down, level

Definition: tear down so as to make flat with the ground


Antonyms for (adj) erect

Main entry: erect, upright, vertical

Definition: upright in position or posture

Usage: an erect stature; erect flower stalks; for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression; a column still vertical amid the ruins; he sat bolt upright

Antonyms: unerect

Definition: not upright in position or posture


Antonyms: sitting, seated

Definition: (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks


Antonyms: running

Definition: executed or initiated by running


Antonyms: running

Definition: (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream


Antonyms: curly

Definition: (of hair) having curls or waves


Antonyms: crooked

Definition: having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned


Antonyms: curved, curving

Definition: having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend


Antonyms: corrupt, crooked

Definition: not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive


Main entry: tumid, erect

Definition: of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

Antonyms: soft

Definition: yielding readily to pressure or weight


Antonyms: soft

Definition: compassionate and kind; conciliatory


Antonyms: soft

Definition: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')


Antonyms: diffuse, diffused, soft

Definition: (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected


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