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.