What are the antonyms for ABANDONMENT?
- embarrassment, retention, inhibition, retrieval, self-restraint, reclamation, beginning, reserve, self-control, constraint, willpower, self-command, Recoupment, initiation, discretion, self-discipline, carefulness, repossession, continuation, engagement, discreetness, suppression, commencement, discipline, heedfulness, restraint, repression, self-denial, self-consciousness, self-mastery, undertaking, reticence, uneasiness.
Synonyms for ABANDONMENT
- nixing,
- spiritlessness,
- defection,
- termination,
- reversings,
- emptiness,
- zealotry,
- forlornness,
- stay,
- discontinuance,
- in justice,
- depravations,
- exit,
- plenty of rope,
- anguish,
- Demission,
- full play,
- high living,
- repudiation,
- unrestraint,
- Rustiness,
- full swing,
- backsliding,
- independency,
- embarkation,
- crossing,
- dispiritedness,
- ending,
- self-abnegation,
- forbearance,
- illiberalities,
- self-gratification,
- laxity,
- decampment,
- waiver,
- neglect,
- gloominess,
- uninhibitedness,
- freedom,
- partiality,
- leave-taking,
- incontinence,
- eradication,
- desert,
- hopelessness,
- eschewal,
- obsessiveness,
- heartlessness,
- dejection,
- blacklisting,
- monomania,
- willfulness,
- release,
- dogma,
- Elbowroom,
- glumness,
- Disallowance,
- Jilting,
- arbitrariness,
- surrender,
- cessation,
- cancellation,
- relinquishment,
- moroseness,
- despondency,
- depravity,
- halt,
- nonuse,
- resignation,
- expulsion,
- disuse,
- life in the fast lane,
- desuetude,
- laissez faire,
- free living,
- immoderation,
- lightheartedness,
- Dedition,
- inhospitability,
- starkness,
- own accord,
- carelessness,
- departure,
- renunciation,
- renouncement,
- apostasy,
- desperation,
- evacuation,
- exclusion,
- loneliness,
- stoppage,
- elimination,
- capitulation,
- self-sacrifice,
- sinfulness,
- escapement,
- illiberality,
- vitiation,
- closure,
- Blackballing,
- barrenness,
- recklessness,
- jettison,
- Freedoms,
- desertion,
- wildness,
- rejection,
- despair,
- pause,
- disavowals,
- wantonness,
- free-living,
- Rampancy,
- disposal,
- betrayal,
- parting,
- refusal,
- bleakness,
- Depravation,
- violence,
- Retractation,
- abnegation,
- turnabout,
- cheerlessness,
- downheartedness,
- standstill,
- quittin,
- closedown,
- single-mindedness,
- discontinuation,
- high-living,
- withdrawal,
- interruption,
- exodus,
- dissipation,
- quitclaim,
- to hell in handbasket,
- giving way,
- relegation,
- forsaking,
- renouncements,
- liberty,
- disapproval,
- tergiversation,
- curtailment,
- extravagance,
- about-face,
- retraction,
- setting aside,
- hiatus,
- riddance,
- acceptance,
- dismissal,
- Disclamation,
- injustice,
- depression,
- flexibility,
- disheartenment,
- criminality,
- Obsoletism,
- dereliction,
- denial,
- abdication,
- misery,
- criminalities,
- sensuality,
- Incorrigibility,
- ejection,
- obsoleteness,
- retirement,
- end,
- pessimism,
- fanaticism,
- shutdown,
- keep,
- life in fast lane,
- abandonment,
- singlemindedness,
- discouragement,
- self-government,
- extremism,
- vacation,
- disavowal,
- melancholy,
- Reversing.
Usage Examples for ABANDONMENT
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She thought of three different scenes; she thought of Mary sitting upright and saying, " I'm in love- I'm in love"; she thought of Rodney losing his self- consciousness among the dead leaves, and speaking with the abandonment of a child; she thought of Denham leaning upon the stone parapet and talking to the distant sky, so that she thought him mad. - "Night and Day" by Virginia Woolf
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Yet the position of the besieged was becoming desperate: dwindling daily in numbers, they were becoming too feeble to hold the long line of fortifications; but, when his council suggested the abandonment of Il Borgo and Senglea and withdrawal to St. Angelo, La Valette remained obdurate. - "Knights of Malta, 1523-1798" by R. Cohen
