Stays Synonyms and Antonyms

To prevent the occurrence or continuation of a movement, action, or operation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stops
  2. stalls
  3. halts
  4. discontinues
  5. checks
  6. ceases
  7. arrests
To put off until a later time
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. waits
  2. waives
  3. tables
  4. suspends
  5. shelves
  6. remits
  7. postpones
  8. delays
  9. defers
  10. adjourns
Continue in a place, position, or situation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. waits
  2. continues
  3. tarries
  4. remains
  5. lingers
  6. bides
  7. abides
  8. sojourns
Antonyms:
  1. leaves
Stay behind
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. remains
  2. sojourns
  3. lodges
  4. persists
  5. visits
Antonyms:
  1. departs
Overcome or allay
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. appeases
  2. quells
A woman's close-fitting foundation garment
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. corset
  2. girdle

Words Related to Stays

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Stays Sentence Examples

  • He stays with his mother.

  • Everyone stays in the city or under it.

  • Nobody stays at home to look after the kids any more.

  • But she's such a mouse, she stays with him, taking it on the chin, so to speak.

  • Fixity of all the parts was secured by a tubular mast extending upwards and downwards through about the middle of the craft, and from its extremities ran stays of aluminium wire to the tips of the aeroplanes and the end of the tubular backbone.

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