Author:
Peter Berry
Date Of Creation:
16 February 2021
Update Date:
17 May 2024
Content
The antonyms are those words whose meanings are opposite to each other. For example: light – darkness.
Antonyms can be nouns (Final start), adjectives (clean dirty), verbs (buy Sell) or adverbs (fast slow).
They differ from synonyms, which are those words that have the same meaning, or at least equivalent.
- It can serve you: Synonyms and antonyms
Types of antonyms
- Reciprocal antonyms. Neither word could exist without the other. For example: buy Sell; give - receive.
- Gradual antonyms. Although they are words with opposite meanings, between them there are gradual terms. For example: black White (middle term: Gray) or cold - hot, (intermediate term: warm).
- Complementary antonyms. The existence of one term prevents the other from existing. For example: married single or Living Dead (a person cannot be dead and alive at the same time).
Examples of antonyms
Word | Its antonym is ... |
close | far |
light | darkness |
ease | difficulty |
little | big |
delete | enroll |
evaporate | solidify |
top | Start |
eventual | permanent |
implicit | explicit |
topple | institute |
overthrow | build |
close | open |
accentuate | attenuate |
inadmissible | admissible |
defeat | triumph |
to accept | to refuse |
identical | different |
I owe | fertilizer |
opportunity | mistake |
charity | selfishness |
die | live |
fair | unfair |
fable | truth |
even | unfair |
weightless | solid |
blind | seer |
work | passivity |
append | disengage |
moldable | rigid |
failed | right |
remove | give back |
show off | go out |
hang up | hook off |
training | disintegration |
irresponsibility | responsibility |
humor | seriousness |
war | peace |
pack | unpack |
thin | thick |
deny | to access |
drop | lifting |
deprave | ennoble |
effervescence | tranquility |
pious | impiety |
moisten | dry off |
bored | amuse |
evacuate | to hold back |
easy | difficult |
future | past |
general | personal |
select | common |
press | break free |
hit | confuse |
equality | inequality |
stench | fragrance |
inside | Exterior |
superiority | inferiority |
cute | ugly |
tired | rested |
man | woman |
dirty | cleansed |
wise | ignorant |
to accuse | cover up |
cease | continue |
mess | order |
imperfection | complement |
change | stay |
goodbye | Hi |
sad | happy |
glory | to embarrass |
unexpected | provided |
global | partial |
look for | hide |
Justice | injustice |
weariness | joy |
satiate | limit |
access | departure |
have fun | get bored |
flexible | rigid |
pacifier | fighter |
despise | assess |
frequent | unusual |
idealistic | rationalist |
Clear | Dark |
feasible | unrealizable |
to put | take |
hot | cold |
liar | authentic |
current | past |
hygienic | unhealthy |
to adore | hate |
effects | cause |
palate | insensitivity |
snuggled up | erect |
excite | disappoint |
center | shore |
battle | peace |
ice | thaw |
function | fail |
hill | flat |
perceptive | clumsy |
spare | lack |
guaranteed | uncertain |
unlikely | probable |
guess | mislead |
to mention | hide |
shorten | enlarge |
unskilled | skilled |
order | chaos |
educated | ignorant |
advance | to delay |
place | dislodge |
settle | uproot |
together | separated |
day | night |
beautiful | ugly |
infinity | smallness |
- It can help you: Sentences with antonyms
More antonyms
- Cold - hot.
- High Low.
- Give - receive.
- Buy Sell.
- Cute - ugly.
- Day Night.
- Big boy.
- Single married.
- Full empty.
- Learn - teach.
- Odd Couple.
- Poor rich.
- Hate love.
- Darkness - light.
- Weak strong.
- Peace war.
- Far near.
- Closed open.
- Defeat - triumph.
- Dirty clean.
- Long short.
- Expensive cheap.
- Sad, happy.
- New old.
- Late early.
- Good bad.
- Fun - boring.
- Seer - blind.
- Fine - thick.
- Follow with: 100 Examples of Synonyms