ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsAamity
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amity
Meaning: peaceful friendship and goodwill
amity in a sentence
How amity is used in real sentences:
Decades of amity allowed the neighboring nations to share the river peacefully.
The former rivals displayed their new amity by organizing the festival together.
“Weeks of shared labor created unexpected amity among groups that had previously disputed grazing boundaries and burn schedules.”
— from the passage The Juniper Recovery
Synonyms for amity
Other words for amity — friendship, harmony and goodwill — carry the same meaning.
- friendship
- harmony
- goodwill
Antonyms of amity
Words that mean the opposite of amity:
Where it comes from
From Latin amicitia, meaning 'friendship,' through Old French amité.
Memory hook
AMITY contains ami, meaning 'friend': amity is friendship.