antonym

See also Antonym

English

Etymology

circa 1870: ant- + -onym

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈæntəˌnɪm/

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Noun

antonym (plural antonyms)

1. (semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another, although not necessarily in all its senses.

   "rich" is an antonym of "poor"; "full" is an antonym of "empty".

Antonyms

• synonym

Derived terms

Terms derived from antonym

autoantonym antonymic antonymous

antonymy binary antonym complementary antonym

gradable antonym polar antonym relational antonym

Translations

word which has the opposite meaning

Afrikaans: teenoorgestelde Arabic: عكس (ar) (`aks) m., نقيض (ar) (naqiiD) m. Armenian: հականիշ (hakaniš) Catalan: antònim (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 反義詞 (cmn), 反义词 (cmn) (fǎnyìcí) Croatian: antonim (hr) m., nasuprotnica (hr) f. Czech: antonymum (cs) n., opozitum (cs) n. Danish: antonym (da) n. Dutch: tegendeel (nl) n., tegengestelde (nl) n., antoniem (nl) n. Esperanto: antonimo (eo) Estonian: antonüüm (et) Finnish: antonyymi (fi), vastakohta (fi) French: antonyme (fr) m. Galician: antónimo (gl) m. German: Antonym (de) n. Greek: αντώνυμο (el) n. (antónymo) Hindi: विपर्याय (hi) (viparyāy) m. Hungarian: ellentét (hu), antonima (hu) Icelandic: andheiti (is)

Indonesian: lawan kata, antonim Interlingua: antonymo Italian: antonimo (it) m. Japanese: 対義語 (ja) (たいぎご, taigigo), 反意語 (ja) (はんいご, han'igo), 反対語 (ja) (はんたいご, hantaigo) Korean: 반대어 (bandeaeo), 반의어 (banuieo) Latvian: antonīms (lv) m. Lithuanian: antonìmas (lt) m. Norwegian: antonym (no) Polish: antonim (pl) m. Portuguese: antónimo (pt) m. (Portugal), antônimo (pt) m. (Brazil) Romanian: antonim n., antonime n plural Russian: антоним (ru) (antónim) m. Scottish Gaelic: frith-fhacal (gd) m. Serbian: odveznica Slovene: protipomenka (sl) f., antonim (sl) m. Spanish: antónimo (es) m. Swedish: antonym (sv) Telugu: వ్యతిరేక పదము (vyatireka padamu) Welsh: gwrthwynebair (cy)

See also

• thesaurus

External links

• Antonym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Adjective

antonym

1. antonymous

Declension

Declension of antonym

Inflections of antonym Comparation by mer and mest
Indefinite singular	Common	antonym
	Neuter	antonymt
Definite singular	Masc.	antonyme
	All	antonyma
Plural		antonyma

Noun

antonym c.

1. antonym

Declension

Declension of antonym

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	antonym	antonymen	antonymer	antonymerna
genitive	antonyms	antonymens	antonymers	antonymernas