List of antonyms from "ons" to antonyms from "opaqueness"


Discover our 183 antonyms available for the terms "ontoing, ons, oodles, onslaught, onset" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « onset »

  • noun beginning; attack
Example sentences :
  • The onset and the issue were like the passage and destruction of a whirlwind.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • He met their onset with a firm, steady foot, and fired straight at their heads.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • As an eagle descendeth on its prey, so rusheth my kinsman to the onset.
  • Extract from : « Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI » by Various
  • They were also greatly elated with the success which had crowned the first onset.
  • Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier
  • Had I known this, I could have marked the onset with a less failing spirit.
  • Extract from : « Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles Lever
  • Then went they to their ships, and made ready to row to the onset.
  • Extract from : « The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) » by Snorri Sturluson
  • Frank could not withstand this onset, he was forced to his knees.
  • Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Cruise » by Burt L. Standish
  • But the Trojans, in close array, first made the onset, and Hector led them on.
  • Extract from : « The Iliad of Homer (1873) » by Homer
  • If it had been put in a packing-case he would have been defeated at the onset.
  • Extract from : « The Nrnberg Stove » by Louisa de la Ram (AKA Ouida)
  • An injury to his thigh had led to the onset of an insidious hip disease.
  • Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell