VARNISH Antonyms

• not having a protective covering

• lacking its natural or customary covering

• having no clothes on the body

• lacking in magnitude or quantity

• just barely adequate or within a lower limit

• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

• lacking a surface finish such as paint

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• having everything extraneous removed including contents

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• expose to view

• make public

• lay bare

• having a broad or rounded end

• used of a knife or other blade; not sharp

• characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion

• devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

• make less intense

• make numb or insensitive

• make dull or blunt

• make less sharp

• make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation

• the exposure of an impostor or a fraud

• expose or make accessible to some action or influence

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• to show, make visible or apparent

• remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

• reveal to view as by removing a cover

• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

• expose to light, of photographic film

• expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas

• abandon by leaving out in the open air

• affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed

• affording free passage or access

• used of mouth or eyes

• (set theory) of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints

• ready or willing to receive favorably

• open and observable; not secret or hidden

• a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water

• where the air is unconfined

• a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play

• information that has become public

• with no protection or shield

• open to or in view of all

• not having been filled

• accessible to all

• not defended or capable of being defended

• (of textures) full of small openings or gaps

• having no protecting cover or enclosure

• not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought

• not sealed or having been unsealed

• without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition

• not requiring union membership

• possibly accepting or permitting

• affording free passage or view

• openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness

• ready for business

• cause to open or to become open

• start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning

• become open

• begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.

• spread out or open from a closed or folded state

• make available

• become available

• have an opening or passage or outlet

• make the opening move

• afford access to

• display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer

• make manifest

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• disclose directly or through prophets

• remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

• reveal to view as by removing a cover

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect

• deprive of certain characteristics

• cause the ruin or downfall of

• cause to become loose

• remove the outer cover or wrapping of

• reveal the true nature of

• take the mask off

• not having a coating of stain or varnish

• free from any effort to soften to disguise