Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb remain
4 senses of remain
Sense 1
stay, remain, rest -- (stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week")
=> be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")
Sense 2
stay, stay on, continue, remain -- (continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year")
=> be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")
Sense 3
remain -- (be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war")
=> be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")
Sense 4
persist, remain, stay -- (stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up")
Antonyms of adj remaining
1 sense of remaining
Sense 1
leftover, left over (predicate), left (predicate), odd, remaining, unexpended -- (not used up; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a little money left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars left"; "saved the remaining sandwiches for supper"; "unexpended provisions")
INDIRECT (VIA unexhausted) -> exhausted, spent -- (depleted of energy, force, or strength; "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"; "the exhausted food sources"; "exhausted oil wells")
Similarity of adj remaining
1 sense of remaining
Sense 1
leftover, left over (predicate), left (predicate), odd, remaining, unexpended -- (not used up; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a little money left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars left"; "saved the remaining sandwiches for supper"; "unexpended provisions")
=> unexhausted (vs. exhausted) -- (not used up completely; "an unexhausted well")