Eschew: meaning, example and synonyms
Eschewv. To deliberately avoid or abstain from something.
Example
Committed to unadorned prose, the essayist eschewed ornate metaphors, preferring sentences whose plain construction left no doubt about their meaning.
- Part of speech
- verb
- Synonyms
- avoid, shun, forgo, abstain from
- Antonyms
- embrace, adopt, seek, indulge in
- Memory tip
- Eschew sounds like a sneeze, ah-CHOO: you turn your face away from it.
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Check yourself: Eschew in context
Committed to a simple life, the monks ______ all luxuries, sleeping on wooden pallets and eating only what they grew in the monastery garden.
Answer: eschewed. Deliberately avoiding luxuries for a simple life means the monks eschewed them. valorized (glorify), portended (foreshadow) and subsumed (absorb into a larger whole) don't fit this context.
The architect ______ decoration of any kind, insisting that a building's beauty should come entirely from its proportions and materials.
Answer: eschewed. Refusing to use any decoration means the architect eschewed it. portended (foreshadow), preempted (act first to forestall) and subsumed (absorb into a larger whole) don't fit this context.