anything but
used to mean the opposite of the stated quality:
She's meant to be really nice but she was anything but nice when I met her.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Opposites
- antithesis
- antonym
- anything
- be like chalk and cheese idiom
- chalk
- contrary
- countervailing
- dichotomous
- dichotomy
- extreme
- flip side
- inversion
- non-
- opposed
- opposite
- or otherwise idiom
- otherwise
- polarity
- pole
- reverse
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