The antonyms for the phrase "makes use" are "abandon," "ignore," "neglect," "disregard," "discard," and "waste." These words suggest a lack of utilization or a failure to take advantage of something. Abandon implies giving up completely, while ignore connotes a conscious decision to not pay attention to something. Neglect denotes a failure to care for something properly, and disregard suggests a lack of consideration or concern. Discard means to throw away or get rid of, while waste means to misuse or squander. By contrast, the phrase "makes use" implies a purposeful and intentional effort to utilize something to its fullest potential.

What are the antonyms for Makes use?

• v.

  • use
  • abstain
  ,
  • cease
  ,
  • halt
  ,
  • leave alone
  ,
  • let go
  ,
  • mismanage
  ,
  • misuse
  ,
  • neglect
  ,
  • reject
  ,
  • renounce
  ,
  • repudiate
  ,
  • save
  ,
  • stop
  .

Famous quotes with Makes use

• Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

  Guy Debord
• So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

  Katherine Dunham
• All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

  Alexander Herzen
• All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.

  Alexander Herzen
• The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

  Antonin Artaud

Synonyms:

brightness, brilliance, brio, briskness, cachet, cheerfulness, chic, colour, dynamism, eagerness.