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praetorian has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality
“a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble”
a member of the Praetorian Guard
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for praetorian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.