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antonymic

/an-tuh-nim/US // ˈæn tə nɪm //UK // (ˈæntənɪm) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a word opposite in meaning to another. Fast is an antonym of slow.Compare synonym.

Synonyms & 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.