When we use the phrase "in preference to", we usually mean that we prefer one thing over another. Antonyms for this phrase could be "equally", "as well as", or "in addition to". These words suggest that both options are viable and we don't favor one over the other. Another antonym for this phrase could be "instead of", meaning that we choose one option while omitting or rejecting the other completely. "Against" could also be an antonym, implying that we are actively avoiding or opposing the option we don't prefer. Ultimately, the appropriate antonym for "in preference to" depends on the context in which it is used.

What are the antonyms for In preference to?

• conj.

  • or
  • Nor
  ,
  • neither
  ,
  • without choice
  .

Famous quotes with In preference to

• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  Gamaliel Bailey
• We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

  George A. Sheehan
• If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

  Tris Speaker
• I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

  Themistocles
• Men say that everyone is naturally a lover of himself, and that it is right that it should be so. This is a mistake; for in fact the cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved, so that he passes a wrong judgment upon what is just, good, and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honour what belongs to himself, in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another.

  Plato

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