Definition of antonym in English:

antonym

noun ˈantənɪmˈæn(t)əˌnɪm

A word opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good).
反义词
Example sentencesExamples
- It was years after retirement before I realized that rather than thinking of them as near synonyms that they were antonyms.
- The thesaurus provides synonyms, antonyms and related words, and is accessed by just right-clicking on the word to be looked up, and selecting ‘Thesaurus’ from the right-mouse menu.
- I need an antonym for it, a way of describing a rather unfortunate concordance of events that leads to a horrible outcome rather than the pleasant coincidence that would normally befall.
- Though the words sound like antonyms, interdependence and independence are not mutually exclusive.
- Pretending these are synonyms when in fact they are antonyms is deceptive.
- All around the board were letters and at the centre two simple words - antonyms of each other - yes and no.
- Connoisseurs of the interesting - whose antonym is the boring - appreciate clash, not harmony.
- What exactly are the differences between synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms?
- Although this doesn't really translate into English, we nevertheless have a negative association between the liver and bravery, lexicalised in the antonym of bravery: ‘lily-livered’.
- To be sure, every linguist, when pursuing a semantic investigation, will collect information about collocations and will elicit judgements about entailments, antonyms, and other meaning relations.
- The words aren't precise antonyms, but they're somewhat close to it.
- The students can practice synonyms and antonyms on small computerized machines that give instant feedback and register a score with happy little dings and clicks.
- A term often used as an antonym to pluralism to describe a state in which politics, society, and economy are all subject to the control of an elite or a party.
- For most of my life I've gone so far in the opposite direction that if I knew the antonym for hypochondria I'd employ it now.
- The antonyms it offered: ‘reactionary’ and ‘intolerant.’
- It also catches dictionary and thesaurus sites and sends back deliberate misspellings, antonyms instead of synonyms, etc.
- Rather, ‘poor’ is used in a medieval sense as an antonym to ‘powerful.’
- She also said I looked flushed and pale, but they're antonyms so I have no idea what she was talking about.
- Perfect if you enjoy the oxymoron of a synonym being an antonym.
- The range of the word would be the definitions contained in the dictionary, and the field would be all the synonyms and antonyms that might be found in a thesaurus.

Derivatives

antonymous

adjective anˈtɒnɪməsænˈtɑnəməs

We pick up the occasional word - ‘ethical… responsible… trustworthy’ - and we sense that Bill is compiling an antonymous description of the young man.
Example sentencesExamples
- Antonymous pairs have previously been described and categorized in terms of gradability, reciprocity, inverseness and so on.
- The intention has not been to define or discriminate them, but to arrange them in synonymous and antonymous groups; it serves as both a word-finder and a prompter of the memory regarding words one knows but could not recall to mind.
- I am conducting a questionnaire survey whose goal is to seek out differences in grammatical behaviour within pairs of antonymous property words.
- So whatever is meant by absolutism is antonymous to relativism.

antonymy

noun anˈtɒnəmi

It will be essential reading for scholars interested in antonymy and corpus linguistics.
Example sentencesExamples
- These links of similarity or contrast (antonymy) create lexical cohesion in a text.
- Having identified the discourse functions of antonymy in adult writing and speech, I'm now examining children's language to discover how and when ‘opposites’ are first learnt.
- We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.
- Fresh, empirical statements are made about antonymy, and over 350 authentic examples of ‘opposites’ are recorded and analysed.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French antonyme, from ant- (from Greek anti- 'against') + Greek onuma 'a name'.

Definition of antonym in US English:

antonym

nounˈæn(t)əˌnɪmˈan(t)əˌnim

A word opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good).
反义词
Example sentencesExamples
- She also said I looked flushed and pale, but they're antonyms so I have no idea what she was talking about.
- Rather, ‘poor’ is used in a medieval sense as an antonym to ‘powerful.’
- A term often used as an antonym to pluralism to describe a state in which politics, society, and economy are all subject to the control of an elite or a party.
- The students can practice synonyms and antonyms on small computerized machines that give instant feedback and register a score with happy little dings and clicks.
- All around the board were letters and at the centre two simple words - antonyms of each other - yes and no.
- The thesaurus provides synonyms, antonyms and related words, and is accessed by just right-clicking on the word to be looked up, and selecting ‘Thesaurus’ from the right-mouse menu.
- Pretending these are synonyms when in fact they are antonyms is deceptive.
- To be sure, every linguist, when pursuing a semantic investigation, will collect information about collocations and will elicit judgements about entailments, antonyms, and other meaning relations.
- The words aren't precise antonyms, but they're somewhat close to it.
- It also catches dictionary and thesaurus sites and sends back deliberate misspellings, antonyms instead of synonyms, etc.
- Though the words sound like antonyms, interdependence and independence are not mutually exclusive.
- Although this doesn't really translate into English, we nevertheless have a negative association between the liver and bravery, lexicalised in the antonym of bravery: ‘lily-livered’.
- Connoisseurs of the interesting - whose antonym is the boring - appreciate clash, not harmony.
- For most of my life I've gone so far in the opposite direction that if I knew the antonym for hypochondria I'd employ it now.
- The antonyms it offered: ‘reactionary’ and ‘intolerant.’
- The range of the word would be the definitions contained in the dictionary, and the field would be all the synonyms and antonyms that might be found in a thesaurus.
- Perfect if you enjoy the oxymoron of a synonym being an antonym.
- What exactly are the differences between synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms?
- It was years after retirement before I realized that rather than thinking of them as near synonyms that they were antonyms.
- I need an antonym for it, a way of describing a rather unfortunate concordance of events that leads to a horrible outcome rather than the pleasant coincidence that would normally befall.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French antonyme, from ant- (from Greek anti- ‘against’) + Greek onuma ‘a name’.

词汇	antonym
释义	Definition of antonym in English: antonym noun ˈantənɪmˈæn(t)əˌnɪm A word opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good). 反义词 Example sentencesExamples It was years after retirement before I realized that rather than thinking of them as near synonyms that they were antonyms. The thesaurus provides synonyms, antonyms and related words, and is accessed by just right-clicking on the word to be looked up, and selecting ‘Thesaurus’ from the right-mouse menu. I need an antonym for it, a way of describing a rather unfortunate concordance of events that leads to a horrible outcome rather than the pleasant coincidence that would normally befall. Though the words sound like antonyms, interdependence and independence are not mutually exclusive. Pretending these are synonyms when in fact they are antonyms is deceptive. All around the board were letters and at the centre two simple words - antonyms of each other - yes and no. Connoisseurs of the interesting - whose antonym is the boring - appreciate clash, not harmony. What exactly are the differences between synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms? Although this doesn't really translate into English, we nevertheless have a negative association between the liver and bravery, lexicalised in the antonym of bravery: ‘lily-livered’. To be sure, every linguist, when pursuing a semantic investigation, will collect information about collocations and will elicit judgements about entailments, antonyms, and other meaning relations. The words aren't precise antonyms, but they're somewhat close to it. The students can practice synonyms and antonyms on small computerized machines that give instant feedback and register a score with happy little dings and clicks. A term often used as an antonym to pluralism to describe a state in which politics, society, and economy are all subject to the control of an elite or a party. For most of my life I've gone so far in the opposite direction that if I knew the antonym for hypochondria I'd employ it now. The antonyms it offered: ‘reactionary’ and ‘intolerant.’ It also catches dictionary and thesaurus sites and sends back deliberate misspellings, antonyms instead of synonyms, etc. Rather, ‘poor’ is used in a medieval sense as an antonym to ‘powerful.’ She also said I looked flushed and pale, but they're antonyms so I have no idea what she was talking about. Perfect if you enjoy the oxymoron of a synonym being an antonym. The range of the word would be the definitions contained in the dictionary, and the field would be all the synonyms and antonyms that might be found in a thesaurus. Derivatives antonymous adjective anˈtɒnɪməsænˈtɑnəməs We pick up the occasional word - ‘ethical… responsible… trustworthy’ - and we sense that Bill is compiling an antonymous description of the young man. Example sentencesExamples Antonymous pairs have previously been described and categorized in terms of gradability, reciprocity, inverseness and so on. The intention has not been to define or discriminate them, but to arrange them in synonymous and antonymous groups; it serves as both a word-finder and a prompter of the memory regarding words one knows but could not recall to mind. I am conducting a questionnaire survey whose goal is to seek out differences in grammatical behaviour within pairs of antonymous property words. So whatever is meant by absolutism is antonymous to relativism. antonymy noun anˈtɒnəmi It will be essential reading for scholars interested in antonymy and corpus linguistics. Example sentencesExamples These links of similarity or contrast (antonymy) create lexical cohesion in a text. Having identified the discourse functions of antonymy in adult writing and speech, I'm now examining children's language to discover how and when ‘opposites’ are first learnt. We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary. Fresh, empirical statements are made about antonymy, and over 350 authentic examples of ‘opposites’ are recorded and analysed. Origin Mid 19th century: from French antonyme, from ant- (from Greek anti- 'against') + Greek onuma 'a name'. Definition of antonym in US English: antonym nounˈæn(t)əˌnɪmˈan(t)əˌnim A word opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good). 反义词 Example sentencesExamples She also said I looked flushed and pale, but they're antonyms so I have no idea what she was talking about. Rather, ‘poor’ is used in a medieval sense as an antonym to ‘powerful.’ A term often used as an antonym to pluralism to describe a state in which politics, society, and economy are all subject to the control of an elite or a party. The students can practice synonyms and antonyms on small computerized machines that give instant feedback and register a score with happy little dings and clicks. All around the board were letters and at the centre two simple words - antonyms of each other - yes and no. The thesaurus provides synonyms, antonyms and related words, and is accessed by just right-clicking on the word to be looked up, and selecting ‘Thesaurus’ from the right-mouse menu. Pretending these are synonyms when in fact they are antonyms is deceptive. To be sure, every linguist, when pursuing a semantic investigation, will collect information about collocations and will elicit judgements about entailments, antonyms, and other meaning relations. The words aren't precise antonyms, but they're somewhat close to it. It also catches dictionary and thesaurus sites and sends back deliberate misspellings, antonyms instead of synonyms, etc. Though the words sound like antonyms, interdependence and independence are not mutually exclusive. Although this doesn't really translate into English, we nevertheless have a negative association between the liver and bravery, lexicalised in the antonym of bravery: ‘lily-livered’. Connoisseurs of the interesting - whose antonym is the boring - appreciate clash, not harmony. For most of my life I've gone so far in the opposite direction that if I knew the antonym for hypochondria I'd employ it now. The antonyms it offered: ‘reactionary’ and ‘intolerant.’ The range of the word would be the definitions contained in the dictionary, and the field would be all the synonyms and antonyms that might be found in a thesaurus. Perfect if you enjoy the oxymoron of a synonym being an antonym. What exactly are the differences between synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms? It was years after retirement before I realized that rather than thinking of them as near synonyms that they were antonyms. I need an antonym for it, a way of describing a rather unfortunate concordance of events that leads to a horrible outcome rather than the pleasant coincidence that would normally befall. Origin Mid 19th century: from French antonyme, from ant- (from Greek anti- ‘against’) + Greek onuma ‘a name’.
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