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outdoors

adverb

Synonyms and Antonyms of outdoors

  1. in or into the open air please wait until you're outdoors to light up your cigarette Synonyms alfresco, out, outside Related Words without Near Antonyms in, inside, within Antonyms indoors

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outdoors

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of outdoors

  1. that part of the physical world that is removed from human habitation our family loves to hike and camp in the great outdoors Synonyms open, open air, nature, out-of-doors, wild, wildernessRelated Words backwoods, bush, country, frontier, hinterland, sticks, up-country; outside, without; badland, barren, desert, waste, wasteland

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