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What are antonyms?

A word opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good ).

Antonyms are referred to words that are totally opposite in meaning. Antonyms word was derived from greek word, ‘anti’ means ‘opposite’ and ‘onym’ means ‘name’. Making it “Opposite name”.

There are three types of antonyms:

Complementary antonyms – which have no middle ground. For example: Night-Day, Man-Women, Girl-boy, etc.

Relational antonyms – Both the words must exist, to be antonyms of each other. For example: sell – buy, Receive-give, below – above, etc.

Graded antonyms – These words can be 2 words on a scale. Words are generally related to each other but can be interpreted differently, by different groups of people. For example: Slow – fast, slim – fat, cool – warm, etc.

Antonyms can be created by adding prefix the the existing words:

For example:

Existing words: Agree ; Disagree (After adding prefix )

Existing words: Honest ; Dishonest

Existing words: Belief ; disbelief

Existing words: Decent ; indecent

Existing words: Behave ; misbehave

Existing words: Obey ; disobey

Existing words: Lead ; mislead

Existing words: trust ; mistrust

Existing words: Comfort ; discomfort

Existing words: Payment ; nonpayment

Existing words: Sense ; nonsense

Existing words: Able ; unable, disable

Existing words: Like ; unlike

Existing words: Fortunate ; unfortunate

Existing words: Interpret ; misinterpret

Existing words: Tolerant ; intolerant

Existing words: Marvelous ; Terrible

Existing words: Professional ; Amateur

Existing words: Temporary ; Permanent

Existing words: Visible ; Invisible

Existing words: Rich ; poor

Existing words: wide ; narrow

Existing words: Do ; undo

Existing words: Full empty

Existing words: comfortable ; uncomfortable

Existing words: mature ; immature

Existing words: Legal ; illegal

Existing words: Excellent ; terrible

Existing words: ugly ; beautiful

Existing words: hold ; uphold

Existing words: sad ; happy

Existing words: Narrow ; wide

Existing words: small ; large

Existing words: True ; false

Existing words: Husband ; wife

Existing words: On ; off

Existing words: son ; daugther

Existing words: sister ; brother

Here are few examples of antonyms.