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reservation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of reservation

1 a feeling or attitude that one does not know the truth, truthfulness, or trustworthiness of someone or something

  • despite my reservations, we hired the young teen as a babysitter
Synonyms of reservation

distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, dubiety, dubitation [archaic], incertitude, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, query, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty
Words Related to reservation

disbelief, incredulity, unbelief

anxiety, concern, paranoia, wariness

compunction, niggle [chiefly British], qualm, scruple, tremor
Near Antonyms of reservation

credence, faith
Antonyms of reservation

assurance, belief, certainty, certitude, confidence, conviction, sureness, surety, trust

2 something upon which the carrying out of an agreement or offer depends

  • gave us his approval without any reservations
Synonyms of reservation

condition, contingency, if, provision, proviso, qualification, stipulation
Words Related to reservation

strings, terms

precondition, prerequisite, requirement, requisite

limitation, modification, restriction

exception, exemption

demand, essential, must, necessity, need

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