Antonym

Noun

 * 1) A word which has the opposite meaning to another, although not necessarily in all its senses.
 * 2) * "fat" is an antonym of "thin".
 * 3) * "slow" is an antonym of "fast".

Adjectives for Antonym
perfect; offensive; closest; best; physical; living; shadowy; upright; geographic; convenient; useful; natural; implied; true.

Thesaurus
antipode; antipodes; antipole; antithesis; articulation; contra; converse; counter; counterbalance; countercheck; counterpoint; counterpoise; counterpole; counterterm; expression; foil; free form; homograph; homonym; homophone; inverse; lexeme; linguistic form; locution; logos; metonym; minimum free form; monosyllable; obverse; offset; opposite; opposite number; polysyllable; reverse; setoff; syllable; synonym; term; the contrary; the other side; usage; utterance; verbalism; verbum; vis-a-vis; vocable; word

Etymology
circa 1870:, with the 'i' dropped because of the following vowel.

Antonyms

 * synonym

Derived terms

 * autoantonym
 * binary antonym
 * complementary antonym


 * gradable antonym
 * polar antonym
 * relational antonym

Related terms

 * antonymic
 * antonymous
 * antonymy

Translations

 * Afrikaans: teenoorgestelde
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian: հականիշ (hakaniš)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: antónimo
 * German:
 * Greek: (antónymo)
 * Hindi: विपर्याय
 * Hungarian: ellentét,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: lawan kata, antonim


 * Interlingua: antonymo
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 反意語,
 * Korean: 반대어 (bandeaeo), 반의어 (banuieo)
 * Latvian: antonīms
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian: antonym
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: antonim, antonime n plural
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: odveznica
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: వ్యతిరేక పదము (vyatireka padamu)
 * Welsh:

Adjective

 * 1) antonymous

Noun

 * 1) antonym