Public and Quality

Public

Public noun - The body of the community as contrasted with the elite.
Usage example: the highbrows have always disdained his horror novels, but the public just eats them up

Quality is an antonym for public.

Quality

Quality noun - The highest class in a society.
Usage example: the quality were inordinately proud of their bloodlines

Public is an antonym for quality.

How words are described

human human public human quality
good good public good quality
average average public average quality
actual actual public actual quality
Other adjectives: real, great, main, general, greater, literary.

Both words in one sentence

  • Ivy League for Everyone The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a great school frequently listed as a "public Ivy" (a public university providing an Ivy League quality of education).
  • With Quality Comics, DC Comics acquired the characters while they were still under copyright, but they allowed the characters that they weren't using to enter the public domain.
  • Ripe targets of criticism for so-called "Noynoying" (planking), as well as for incessant moralizing whilst letting the quality of public administration deteriorate.
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