All mate antonyms
ma·té
M m noun mate
- rival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- enemy — A person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
- foe — a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe.
- opponent — a person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- antagonist — Your antagonist is your opponent or enemy.
- detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
- mismate — (transitive) To mate or match wrongly or unsuitably; mismatch.
adjective mate
verb mate
- disjoin — to undo or prevent the junction or union of; disunite; separate.
- refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- disconnect — SCSI reconnect
- abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
- uncouple — to release the coupling or link between; disconnect; let go: to uncouple railroad cars.
- fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.