DUPLEX Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈdü-ˌpleks

Definition of duplex

as in dual

consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined a duplex apartment with all of the bedrooms on the second floor

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Recent Examples of duplex

Adjective

The project consists of 10 duplex-style homes of 1,300 square feet apiece, with three bedrooms, attached two-car garages and private yards. — Joe Tash, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022 For the penthouses, Herzog and de Meuron worked alongside structural engineers AKT to create the unique features within each duplex penthouse and interior designer Tom Dixon’s Design Research Studio to create lovely homes. — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2022

Noun

The couple planned to combine the two units into one duplex megapad, giving them a roughly 6,100-square-foot home across the entire sixth floor and half of the fifth floor. — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026 The duplex homes will go from 1,202 to 1,606 square feet and have either one- or two-car garages. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for duplex

Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplex

Adjective

Finally, grab 32% off the Eufy E340 Security Video Doorbell with Chime, providing dual 2K cameras and color night vision.

— Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026
Papazian hand-selected his team from both production and real estate backgrounds, giving the campus an unusual dual fluency.

— Partner Content, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of dual

Noun

The Nortown was converted from a single-screen theater to a triplex in 1984, and closed in 1990.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Related Articles The 8,000-square-foot triplex occupies part of the American Thread Building at 260 West Broadway, a Renaissance Revival building completed in 1896.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of triplex

Adjective

Governments across the globe must pick a side—whose chips, whose clouds, which camp—a binary choice that is increasingly uncomfortable for many.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
Separately, Cboe also received SEC approval Tuesday to offer binary options tied to company-specific key performance indicators (KPIs).

— Oliver Renick, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of binary

Noun

Nearly half of existing condo sales and more than a quarter of single-family home sales were made in cash in September.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
In 2014, The New Yorker described Holmes as living in a two-bedroom Palo Alto condo, with little time for friends or dating.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of condo

Adjective

Oren Alexander still faces two state rape cases in Miami-Dade court, and his twin brother Alon is charged in one of them.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
Its challenges demonstrate what more of California will probably face as the twin dangers of fire and coastal erosion converge this winter.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of twin

Noun

Technique works well in testing This strategy optimizes both the transport and perovskite layers together, driving efficiency and durability to record levels.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
The longer-term outcome of the new approach, the agency hopes, will reduce the financial and technical burden on competing research teams and ultimately get missions from idea to orbit with efficiency and speed.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of efficiency

Noun

Rooms Las Alcobas offers a moody-luxe atmosphere with a touch of Mexican influence throughout its 35 surprisingly spacious suites and three penthouses, where dark rosewood and fresh, fragile orchids take center stage.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
Populated almost entirely by impossibly wealthy characters reveling in penthouse splendor, the Astaire-Rogers movies argued with high style against the proposition that the material and social rewards of wealth were dubious.

— David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of penthouse

Noun

The place had belonged to a former photography director of this magazine, Jordan Schaps, who started renting the 700-square-foot floor-through for $135 a month in 1975.

— Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 1 Nov. 2025
With its floor-through dwellings, celebrity penthouse, secret passageways, and camaraderie (begrudging or otherwise) between residents both longtime and new, the Arconia is a world within itself.

— Scarlett Harris, Architectural Digest, 8 Sep. 2025