Forty-eight is a number that represents a quantity or value of 48. While antonyms are typically used to describe words that are opposites in meaning, it is not possible to have antonyms for a number. Numbers do not have an inherent opposition or contradiction. However, one could use contrasting concepts to describe the number 48, such as youth and age, or small and large. Alternatively, one might utilize the concept of quantity to describe 48, comparing it to other numbers that represent more or less. Ultimately, the term "antonym" is not applicable to numbers, so a discussion of contrasting words and concepts may be more useful.

What are the antonyms for Forty-eight?

• adj.

  • noun
  • ordinal
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Famous quotes with Forty-eight

• No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

  H. L. Mencken
• We have seen that Alfred in his day had never hesitated to use money as well as arms. Ethelred used money instead of arms. He used it in ever-increasing quantities, with ever-diminishing returns … There is the record of a final payment to the Vikings in 1012. This time forty-eight thousand pounds' weight of silver was extracted, and the oppressors enforce the collection by the sack of Canterbury, holding Archbishop Alphege to ransom, and finally killing him at Greenwich because he refused to coerce his flock to raise the money. The Chronicle states: "All these calamities fell upon us through evil counsel, because tribute was not offered to them at the right time, nor yet were they resisted; but, when they had done the most evil, then was peace made with them. And notwithstanding all this peace and tribute they went everywhere in companies, harried our wretched people, and slew them"

  Winston Churchill
• Reports show that the combined Gross Domestic Product of forty-eight countries is less than the wealth of the three richest people in the world. Fifteen billionaires have assets greater than the total national income of Africa, south of the Sahara. Thirty-two people own more than the annual income of everyone who lives in South Asia. Eighty-four rich people have holdings greater than the GDP of China, a nation with 1.2 billion citizens.

  Ken Coates
• One of our universities recently made a survey of the reading habits of the American public; it decided that forty-eight percent of all Americans read, during a year, no book at all. I picture to myself that reader — that non-reader, rather; one man out of every two — and I reflect, with shame: "Our poems are too hard for him." But so, too, are pornographic novels — any book whatsoever.

  Randall Jarrell
• "His brain pattern has been fully scanned. But it takes time for them to plot it out. We're all running around like lunatics while he just sits there!" Wisdom poked a stubby finger at the window. "We caught him easily enough. He can't have , can he? But I'd like to know what it is. Before we euth him." "Maybe we should keep him alive until we know." "Euth in forty-eight hours," Wisdom repeated stubbornly. "Whether we know or not. I don't like him. He gives me the creeps."

  Philip K. Dick

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