antonym
Collocations
3ADJ.
antonymous, bad, concave, empty, full, full, good, poor
VERB + ANTONYM
know
ANTONYM + NOUN
'relief', antonyms, convex
Definitions
noun
A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
“Rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”.
A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
All four lines of the pattern are required to establish that hot and cold are antonyms. The water is hot entails The water is not cold. The water is cold entails The water is not hot. The water is not hot does not entail The water is cold. The water is not cold does not entail The water is hot.
"The word 'boom' always makes me uneasy because the antonym of it is bust," said Patrick Jankowski, vice president of research at the Greater Houston Partnership. "Houston is not in a boom -- it is on a new path."
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6“Rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”.
WiktionaryAll four lines of the pattern are required to establish that hot and cold are antonyms. The water is hot entails The water is not cold. The water is cold entails The water is not hot. The water is not
Wiktionary"The word 'boom' always makes me uneasy because the antonym of it is bust," said Patrick Jankowski, vice president of research at the Greater Houston Partnership. "Houston is not in a boom -- it is on
WiktionaryDon't you know an antonym for 'relief'?
Tatoeba · #1209042The word ‘antonym’ is antonymous to ‘synonym’.
Tatoeba · #4461547"Good" is the antonym of "bad" and "tall" is the antonym of "short."
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