Antonyms of noun wholesale

1 sense of wholesale

Sense 1
wholesale -- (the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers)
       Antonym of retail (Sense 1)
      => retail -- (the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wholesale

1 sense of wholesale

Sense 1
wholesale -- (the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers)
       => selling, merchandising, marketing -- (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Antonyms of verb wholesale

1 sense of wholesale

Sense 1
wholesale -- (sell in large quantities)
       Antonym of retail (Sense 2)
      => retail -- (sell on the retail market)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb wholesale

1 sense of wholesale

Sense 1
wholesale -- (sell in large quantities)
       => sell -- (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; "He sold his house in January"; "She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit")

Antonyms of adj wholesale

1 sense of wholesale

Sense 1
sweeping, wholesale -- (ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction")

INDIRECT (VIA indiscriminate) -> discriminate -- (marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people")

Similarity of adj wholesale

1 sense of wholesale

Sense 1
sweeping, wholesale -- (ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction")
       => indiscriminate (vs. discriminate) -- (not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles")

Antonyms of adv wholesale

1 of 2 senses of wholesale

Sense 1
wholesale -- (at a wholesale price; "I can sell it to you wholesale")
       Antonym of retail (Sense 1)
      => retail -- (at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only")

Synonyms of adv wholesale

2 senses of wholesale

Sense 1
wholesale -- (at a wholesale price; "I can sell it to you wholesale")

Sense 2
wholesale, in large quantities -- (on a large scale without careful discrimination; "I buy food wholesale")

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