Antonyms for existent

Antonyms for (adj) existent

Main entry: existent, real

Definition: being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory

Usage: real objects; real people; not ghosts; a film based on real life; a real illness; real humility; Life is real! Life is earnest!- Longfellow

Antonyms: unreal

Definition: lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria


Antonyms: subjective

Definition: taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias


Antonyms: possible, potential

Definition: existing in possibility


Antonyms: ahistorical

Definition: unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition


Main entry: actual, existent

Definition: presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible

Usage: the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different; actual and imagined conditions

Antonyms: possible, potential

Definition: existing in possibility


Antonyms: uneffective, ineffective, ineffectual

Definition: not producing an intended effect


Main entry: existent, existing

Definition: having existence or being or actuality

Usage: an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient; much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran

Antonyms: nonexistent

Definition: not having existence or being or actuality


Antonyms: inactive

Definition: not active physically or mentally


Antonyms: inactive

Definition: not engaged in full-time work


Antonyms: inactive

Definition: lacking activity; lying idle or unused


Antonyms: inactive

Definition: (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly


Antonyms: inactive, passive

Definition: lacking in energy or will


Antonyms: inactive, dormant

Definition: (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct


Antonyms: extinct

Definition: (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive


Antonyms: stative

Definition: ( used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action


Antonyms: passive

Definition: expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb


Antonyms: inactive

Definition: not exerting influence or change


Antonyms: quiet

Definition: of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g.


Antonyms: dead

Definition: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life


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