antonym
/ˈæn.təˌnɪm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.95 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
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Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“Rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”."
- "All four lines of the pattern are required to establish that hot and cold are antonyms. The water is hot entails The water is not cold. The water is cold entails The water is not hot. The water is not hot does not entail The water is cold. The water is not cold does not entail The water is hot."
- ""The word 'boom' always makes me uneasy because the antonym of it is bust," said Patrick Jankowski, vice president of research at the Greater Houston Partnership. "Houston is not in a boom -- it is on a new path.""
- ""To me, Pusher Street is actually the least unique, right? It is what I associate with violence, gangs, murder, threats, and everything which are actually antonyms to what Christiania is," said Mathilde Brandstrup, a Christiania local."
Etymology
From 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.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: antonyme, ἀντωνυμία
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Wiktionary:Semantic relations
near-antonym
coordinate term
cohyponym
antiphrasis
near-synonym
parasynonym
plesionym