You can't afford to neglect your health.
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Afford
//əˈfoɹd//
Synonyms for "afford" (121 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (60)
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More general
16 entriesAntonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
8 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
45 entriesShowing 16 of 45 words.
similar
1 entriesTranslations
88 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- أَعْطَى verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- أَعْطَى verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
Belarusian
2 entries- дазваля́ць сабе́ verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- дазво́ліць сабе́ verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Bulgarian
4 entries- да́вам verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
- давам verb (to provide; furnish)
- доста́вям verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
- и́мам сре́дства да ку́пя verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Catalan
1 entries- permetre's verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 付得起 verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- 提供 verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
- 支付得起 verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Czech
2 entries- dovolit si verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- dovolovat si verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Danish
4 entries- give verb (to provide; furnish)
- give verb (to provide; furnish)
- have råd til verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- skaffe verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
Dutch
1 entries- zich veroorloven verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Esperanto
2 entries- disponigi verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
- disponigi verb (to give forth; to produce as a natural result)
Finnish
4 entries- antaa verb (to give forth; to produce as a natural result)
- olla varaa verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- suoda verb (to give forth; to produce as a natural result)
- suoda verb (to provide; furnish)
French
2 entries- offrir verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
- se permettre verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
German
3 entries- gewähren verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
- imstande sein verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- sich leisten verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Hungarian
2 entries- megengedheti magának verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- módjában áll verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Italian
1 entries- permettersi verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Japanese
4 entries- ゆとりがある verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- 与える verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
- 余裕がある verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- 供給する verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
Korean
1 entries- 여유가 있다 verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Latvian
1 entries- atļauties verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- ha råd til verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- skaffe verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
- tåle verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Polish
2 entries- pozwalać sobie verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- pozwolić sobie verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Portuguese
4 entries- agraciar verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
- conseguir pagar verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- fornecer verb (to provide; furnish)
- fornecer verb (to provide; furnish)
Russian
4 entries- быть в состоя́нии verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- позво́лить себе́ verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- позволя́ть себе́ verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- предоста́вить verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
Scots
1 entries- affuird verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- priùštiti verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- приу̀штити verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Slovak
4 entries- dopriavať si verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- dopriať si verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- dovoliť si verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- dovoľovať si verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Slovene
1 entries- si privoščiti verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Spanish
4 entries- asequir verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- costear verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- exequir verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- permitirse verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Swedish
4 entries- bereda verb (to provide; furnish)
- ge verb (to provide; furnish)
- ha råd verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- skänka verb (to provide; furnish)
Ukrainian
4 entries- бу́ти спромо́жним verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- дозволя́ти собі́ verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- нада́ти verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
- надава́ти verb (to offer, provide, or supply)
Upper Sorbian
4 entries- sej dowolić verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- sej dowolować verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- sej popřewać verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
- sej popřeć verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Welsh
1 entries- fforddio verb (to incur, stand, or bear)
Sample sentences
24 total sentences available.
Being only a student, I can't afford to get married.
Source: tatoeba (21403)
Since neither one of us could afford to take the other to the movies, we went Dutch.
Source: tatoeba (23453)
I can't afford $40 for one book!
Source: tatoeba (27761)
Showing 4 of 24 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.