antonym
A word which has the opposite meaning of another wordA word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
» The word "literally" is an auto-antonym.
Слово "буквально" - автоантонім.
Meaning
2 sensesA word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
“Rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”.
Antonym, Gegenwort, Gegensatzwort
анто́нимantónim
анто́німantónim
a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.
Examples
11 sentencesThe word "literally" is an auto-antonym.
Слово "буквально" - автоантонім.
"Enemy" is the antonym of the word "friend."
«Ворог» — це антонім слова «друг».
ru«Враг» — это антоним слова «друг».
Concave is the antonym of convex.
Don't you know an antonym for 'relief'?
The word ‘antonym’ is antonymous to ‘synonym’.
ru«Антоним» — антоним слова «синоним».
Translations
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Origin
From French antonyme (1840s and 1850s), which was modeled on earlier synonyme and influencFrom French antonyme (1840s and 1850s), which was modeled on earlier synonyme and influenced by the etymons of Ancient Greek ἀντωνυμία (antōnumía, “pronoun”); credit for popularization of the French loanword's naturalization into English is given principally to Charles John Smith and his 1867 book Synonyms and Antonyms: Or, Kindred Words and Their Opposites. Collected and Contrasted. By surface analysis, ant- + -onym.
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Forms
plural: antonymsSynonyms
3 synonyms- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other:opposite wordopposite