What are the opposite words for in preference?

The phrase "in preference" connotes a sense of choice or favor towards one option, while disregarding others. Its antonyms are "indifferently," which implies a lack of preference or partiality, and "opposed to," which indicates a clear disliking or disagreement with that choice. "Equally," can also be used as antonym, indicating a neutral stance towards all possible options, showing that distinctions between choices are not significant enough to outweigh each other. On the other hand, "biased towards" is another antonym for "in preference," suggesting a pre-existing inclination or unfair preference for one option over another.

What are the antonyms for In preference?

• adv.

  • rather
  • extremely
  ,
  • insignificantly
  ,
  • little
  ,
  • violently
  .

Famous quotes with In preference

• 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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