antonym
/an-tuh-nim/US // ˈæn tə nɪm //UK // (ˈæntənɪm) //
反义词,反义字,对立面,反对者
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a word opposite in meaning to another. Fast is an antonym of slow.Compare synonym.
Synonyms & Antonyms
nounword with opposite meaning to another word
Forms: antonyms
Examples
Software began decades ago as an unserious programmers’ antonym of “hardware.”
But, oddly enough, the eyes were a total and surprising antonym of this smiling mouth.
In strict usage, daily is the antonym of nightly as diurnal is of nocturnal.
By and by, which was once a synonym, has become an antonym of immediately, meaning at some (perhaps remote) future time.
Logically the other side of white is not white, while the antonym is the extreme black.
The direct antonym of cause is effect, while that of antecedent is consequent.
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