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substitute has 22 distinct synonyms spread across 9 of its 9 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.
a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
“the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for substitute come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.