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antonym
English
Etymology
circa 1870: ant- +? -onym
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?nt??n?m'
- IPA(key): /?ænt??n?m/
Noun
antonym (plural antonyms)
- (semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
- Synonym: opposite
- Antonym: synonym
- A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Wiktionary:Semantic relations
Further reading
- antonym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Adjective
antonym
- antonymous
Inflection
Noun
antonym n (singular definite antonymet, plural indefinite antonymer)
- antonym
Declension
Related terms
- antonymi
References
- “antonym” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek antonymia, from ???? (antí, “against”) + ????? (ónuma)
Noun
antonym n (definite singular antonymet, indefinite plural antonym or antonymer, definite plural antonyma or antonymene)
- antonym
Antonyms
- synonym
References
- “antonym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek antonymia, from ???? (antí, “against”) + ????? (ónuma)
Noun
antonym n (definite singular antonymet, indefinite plural antonym, definite plural antonyma)
- antonym
Antonyms
- synonym
References
- “antonym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Adjective
antonym (comparative mer antonym, superlative mest antonym)
- antonymous
Declension
Noun
antonym c
- antonym
Declension
References
- antonym in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- anonymt
antonym From the web:
- what antonym mean
- what antonyms and synonyms
- what antonyms in english
- what antonyms exist for the adjective 'new'
- what antonyms of successor
- what antonyms of monotonous
- what's antonyms
contranym
English
Alternative forms
- contronym
Etymology
contra- +? -nym, coined 1962 by Jack Herring as contronym.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?n.t??.n?m/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?n.t??.n?m/
Noun
contranym (plural contranyms)
- A word that has two opposing meanings, such as cleave (“stick together” or “split apart”).
Synonyms
- autoantonym
- antagonym
- Janus word
Translations
Related terms
- contronymy, contranymy
See also
- Appendix:English contranyms
- Category:Contranyms by language
References
contranym From the web:
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