Child and Reason

Child

Child noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.
Usage example: widespread stress is the child of the frenetic pace of the modern world

Reason is an antonym for child.

Reason

Reason noun - A statement given to explain a belief or act.

Child is an antonym for reason.

How words are described

good good child good reason
original original child original reason
true true child true reason
legitimate legitimate child legitimate reason
Other adjectives: single, actual, real, little, new.

Both words in one sentence

  • Now think that you are a parent of a grown up child, who, for no discernible reason you can think of, is suddenly convinced that you abused them as a child.
  • However, it is also implied that if the narrator could have just taken care of her child (and see a reason to live in said child) she could have gotten better faster.
  • In Deadwood, Ellsworth to Alma Garret, as she's bearing the child of a guy who's only (lovelessly) wed for the similarly-honorable reason of dutifully marrying the widow of his dead brother.
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