antonym

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A word which has the opposite (averted or inverted) meaning of another word.

   “Rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”.

2. noun A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.

Similar words

opposite opposite word synonym autoantonym notional opposite complementary antonym antithesis binary antonym relational antonym counterterm

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Word family

antonymic antonymies antonymous antonyms antonymy