Thirty-nine is a numerical term that refers to a specific quantity or amount. Therefore, it is not appropriate to use any antonyms for this word. However, we can look at the antonyms for the numbers three and nine that make up the number thirty-nine. The antonyms of three are many, a lot, and several, while the antonyms of nine are few, little, and insufficient. These antonyms can be used in different contexts to imply the opposite meaning of the original word. For example, instead of saying thirty-nine, one can say "fewer than forty" or "not quite forty" to imply a slightly lower quantity.

What are the antonyms for Thirty-nine?

• adj.

  • noun
  • ordinal
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Famous quotes with Thirty-nine

• You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

  Olympia Dukakis
• The thirty-nine members of the NWA Governing Council included teachers, futurists, environmentalists, feminists, think-tank members, an others from a variety of professional backgrounds. ... The NWA sponsored a number of conferences and facilitated local and national networking. In 1981 the group put forward a "Transformational Platform," which was the first attempt to take ecological, decentralist, globalist, and human-growth ideas and translate them into a detailed, practical political platform with about 300 specific proposals. ... Yet something was missing. Satin observed: ... "We are engaged in theoretical-verbal overkill in exactly the same way the military people are engaged in stockpiling weapons and for the same kind of reasons. ... We don't know what to do."

  Mark Satin
• Buffon, the director of the Jardin du Roi... watched... the sun... Besides him.. stood... his latest experiment: four large wooden frames holding between them an array of over 150 mirrors. Screw threads ensured that each mirror was precisely aligned... Buffon had been inspired to conduct the experiment by the famous story of how... Archimedes defended his hometown from an attack by the Roman fleet... [by] focus[ing] the sun's rays onto the ships' wooden hulls. ...In 1747, at the age of thirty-nine, [Buffon] felt it was time to make his mark... Within two minutes the deal plank began to char, then to smoke. Just as it looked as if it would burst into flames, however, the sun disappeared behind a cloud. ...That summer, crowds flocked... to see the now celebrated scientist set fire to buildings over two hundred feet away.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc
• Poets serious about making careers in institutions understand that the criteria for success are primarily quantitative. They must publish as much as possible as quickly as possible. The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert Frost was thirty-nine. Today these sluggards would be unemployable.

  Dana Gioia
• "This little nursie's not your problem. At thirty-nine, everybody's their own problem..."

  John Updike

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