Rests Synonyms and Antonyms

To provide a basis for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. underpins
  2. roots
  3. predicates
  4. grounds
  5. founds
  6. establishes
  7. builds
  8. bases
Be inherent or innate in
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. resides
  2. reposes
  3. lies
  4. exists
  5. dwells
  6. consists
Stay the same; remain in a certain state
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. remains
  2. ceases
  3. stretches
  4. stops
  5. reposes
  6. pauses
  7. reclines
  8. halts
  9. holds
  10. stays
  11. lies
Antonyms:
  1. bases
  2. changes
  3. activates
  4. doth
  5. energizes
  6. works
Something left after other parts have been taken away
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. remainders
  2. balances
  3. residues
  4. residua
  5. surpluses
  6. supports
  7. sleeps
  8. securities
  9. respites
  10. reprieves
  11. reposes
  12. recesses
  13. quiets
  14. pauses
  15. eases
  16. braces
  17. remnants
  18. stillnesses
  19. intermissions
  20. inertias
  21. leftovers
  22. cessations
Antonyms:
  1. cores
  2. works
  3. energies
  4. activities
  5. base
  6. actions
  7. commotions
  8. agitations
Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sleeps
  2. demises
  3. deceases
  4. passings
  5. extinctions
  6. deaths
  7. dissolutions
  8. releases
Antonyms:
  1. strains
Anything upon which an object rests
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bottoms
  2. pillars
  3. seats
  4. props
  5. supports
  6. pedestals
  7. base
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reposes
  2. eases
  3. relaxations
Sit, as on a branch
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. perches

Words Related to Rests

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Rests Sentence Examples

  • But his fame rests mainly on his theological works.

  • Common sense tells us the obvious is usually where the truth rests and the obvious is either Fitzgerald or someone in the Dawkins family.

  • The responsibility rests with Clifford alone.

  • After another moult the insect passes into the passive nymphal or " pupal " stage, during which it takes no food and rests in some safe hiding-place, such as the soil at the base of its food-plant or the hollow of a leaf-stalk.

  • Macaulay in especial exerted all his art, though in contradiction of probability and fact, to deepen still further the shade which rests upon his reputation.

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