The making refers to the process of creating or producing something. Some antonyms for this word include destroying, dismantling, breaking, ruining, and obliterating. While the making denotes an act of construction or assembly, these antonyms relate to tearing down, disassembling, or shredding something apart. They imply an undoing of what has already been created, rather than the building up of something new. These antonyms could be used to describe the destruction of a building, the elimination of a project, or the dismantling of a team. The making and its antonyms provide a contrasting lexicon that highlights the duality of creative and destructive forces in the world.

What are the antonyms for The making?

• n.

  • potential
  • impossible
  ,
  • impotence
  ,
  • inability
  ,
  • incompetence
  ,
  • lack
  ,
  • weakness
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  • potentiality
  • incapacity
  ,
  • stupidity
  .

Famous quotes with The making

• To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

  James A. Baldwin
• If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

  E. T. Bell
• There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

  Daniel Berrigan
• To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

  Otto von Bismarck
• Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

  Jacqueline Bisset

Synonyms:

bad scene, rotten hand, bum trip, depressing experience, unhappy situation, unpleasant situation, bummer, disaster, downer, drag.