Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A counterterm; an opposite; an antithetical word: the opposite of
synonym: as, life is the antonym of death.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of
synonym .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun semantics A word which has the
opposite meaning of another, although not necessarily in all its senses.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The antonym is a word that makes us all feel better: safety.
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The antonym is a word that makes us all feel better: safety.
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The antonym is a word that makes us all feel better: safety.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Risks Part Two 2010
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As a general matter, when some quality is either present or not e.g., legal or illegal, the antonym is the same as the opposite.
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As a general matter, when some quality is either present or not e.g., legal or illegal, the antonym is the same as the opposite.
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“Cis” means “on the same side,” and is an antonym to “trans,” which means “across.”
linkspam: cis-, cissexism, cissexual « Love | Peace | Ohana 2010
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Kids Prefer Cheese: What is the antonym of "analysis"?
What is the antonym of "analysis"? ITEP Has Published That 2009
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Complete disjunction between the blown-up rhetoric you use to describe how awful the ITEP analysis is ( "shills," "antonym of analysis") and the virtually content-free criticism you back these insults up with.
What is the antonym of "analysis"? ITEP Has Published That 2009
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We can find 692 antonym pairs in English where both words have the same length:
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The definitions for “moral” and “responsibility” indicated REPUBLICAN as an antonym.
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