antonym
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈæntəˌnɪm/
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antónimo
- To improve vocabulary, students should learn antonyms along with synonyms.
- synonyms and antonyms
- synonym and antonym
But that seemed weird to me because first of all, narrow and strong are not antonyms I mean.
- But that seemed weird to me because first of all, narrow and strong are not antonyms I mean.
- Trying to be smart 'cause I don't know the 'cause I don't know the antonym, so now I look stupid.
- But maybe continuous and separate just are actually antonyms.
- The, the, the real antonym or opposite of spiritual is not material.
- Ray Kurzweil wrote about narrow AI versus strong AI, but that seemed weird to me because first of all, narrow and strong are not antonyms.
Examples
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Wisdom's synonym is sense; its antonym is folly.
Academic text (2003) -
Second, teachers should provide student-friendly definitions of the words and suggest synonyms and antonyms of the words.
Academic text (2013) -
You mean the antonym for a thinking human being, right?
Blog text (32) -
Still, like our intellectual ancestors, I hold that reason is the antonym of passion, faith, intuition, and bias.
Academic text (1990) -
Asking students to classify pictures into examples and non-examples teaches them to think about antonyms.
Academic text (2015) -
In summary, the example and non-example activity builds student knowledge of how antonyms are opposites of synonyms.
Academic text (2015) -
An antonym of 'hot' is 'cold'.
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In English, 'happy' has the antonym 'sad'.
Synonyms
A word that means the exact opposite of another word
A word that has the reverse meaning of another word
A word that shows the opposite of another word
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
antonym = ant + onym
Although the word is historically analyzable as 'ant-' plus 'onym', these classical elements are not transparent enough for most learners to infer the meaning 'word with the opposite meaning'.
Etymology
The word antonym comes from Greek parts anti- meaning 'against' and -onym meaning 'name', the same ending you see in synonym. So an antonym is a word that is 'against' another word, which means it has the opposite meaning.