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All nonplus antonyms

non·plus
N n

verb nonplus

  • bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
  • calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
  • clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
  • comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
  • enlighten — Give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.
  • expect — Regard (something) as likely to happen.
  • explain — Make (an idea, situation, or problem) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.
  • explicate — Analyze and develop (an idea or principle) in detail.
  • aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
  • assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
  • clarify — To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
  • encourage — Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
  • give in — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
  • please — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
  • soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
  • support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
  • yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
  • educate — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
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