sky

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of SKY

the expanse of air surrounding the earth <the sky usually looks deep blue on a bright clear day>

Synonyms blue, firmament, heaven(s), high, welkin

Related Words midair; horizon, skyline

a dwelling place of perfect happiness for the soul after death <a belief that warriors felled in battle will be raised to the sky>

Synonyms above, bliss, elysian fields, Elysium, empyrean, kingdom come, New Jerusalem, paradise, sky, Zion (also Sion)

Near Antonyms inferno; limbo, purgatory; hades, netherworld, underworld; abyss, pit

Antonyms Gehenna, hell, Pandemonium, perdition

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