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antonyms

an·to·nym
A a

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [an-tuh-nim]
    • /ˈæn tə nɪm/
    • /ˈæn.tə.nɪm/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [an-tuh-nim]
    • /ˈæn tə nɪm/

Definitions of antonyms word

  • noun antonyms a word opposite in meaning to another. Fast is an antonym of slow. Compare synonym (def 1). 1
  • noun antonyms Plural form of antonym. 1
  • noun antonyms plural of antonym. 0
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Origin of antonyms

First appearance:

before 1865
One of the 28% newest English words
First recorded in 1865-70; ant- + (syn)onym

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Parts of speech for Antonyms

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Antonyms

antonyms popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for antonyms

noun antonyms

  • opposites — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
Just one Synonym for antonyms

Antonyms for antonyms

noun antonyms

  • synonyms — a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
Just one Antonym for antonyms

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Related words

  • thesaurus

    a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, such as the online Thesaurus.com.

  • dictionary and thesaurus

    a dictionary that includes a separate section listing terms with synonyms and antonyms. An online reference site, such as Reference.com, provides immediate electronic access to several dictionaries and a thesaurus as well as to other reference sources.

  • online thesaurus

    a thesaurus or dictionary of words with the same or nearly the same meanings, or synonyms, and their opposites, or antonyms, such as Thesaurus.com, available on the Internet or the World Wide Web, accessed through a web browser, and used by entering a query term into a search box on the site. An online thesaurus provides immediate electronic access to lists of alternate terms for the queried word, covering its various shades of meaning: This online thesaurus showed me that smart, as an adjective, not only means intelligent, but also stylish, or lively, and gave long lists of other words for each meaning.

  • polar opposition

    the relation between a pair of antonyms that denote relatively higher and lower degrees of a quality with respect to an explicit or implicit norm rather than absolute values, as the relation between tall and short or light and dark, but not between true and false.
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