English Explanatory Dictionary

antonym

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
  2. A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.

Pronunciation

ǎnt′ənĭm' /ˈæn.təˌnɪm/ en-us-antonym.ogg

Word forms

antonym antonyms

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.

Synonyms

counterterm opposite

Antonyms

synonym

Related words

Wiktionary:Semantic relations

Derived words

antonymic antonymize antonymous antonymy autantonym autoantonym binary antonym complementary antonym contradictory antonym converse antonym gradable antonym polar antonym relational antonym self-antonym

Translations

Afrikaans: teenoorgestelde Albanian: antonim Arabic: عَكْس Arabic: نَقِيض Armenian: հականիշ Belarusian: анто́нім Bulgarian: антони́м Catalan: antònim Chinese Mandarin: 反義詞 /反义词 Czech: antonymum Czech: opozitum Danish: antonym Dutch: tegendeel Dutch: tegengestelde Dutch: antoniem Esperanto: antonimo Esperanto: mal-vorto Estonian: antonüüm Faroese: andheiti Finnish: antonyymi Finnish: vastakohta French: antonyme Galician: antónimo Georgian: ანტონიმი German: Antonym German: Gegenwort German: Gegensatzwort German: Gegenbegriff Greek: αντώνυμο Hebrew: הֶפֶךְ Hebrew: היפך Hindi: विपर्याय Hindi: विपरीतार्थी शब्द Hindi: विलोम Hungarian: ellentét Hungarian: antonima Icelandic: andheiti Icelandic: andrætt orð Indonesian: lawan kata Indonesian: antonim Interlingua: antonymo Italian: contrario Italian: antonimo Japanese: 対義語 Japanese: 反意語 Japanese: 反対語 Kazakh: антоним Khmer: ន័យផ្ទុយ Korean: 반의어 Korean: 반대어 Korean: 반대(反對)말 Latin: antonymum Latvian: antonīms Lithuanian: antoni̇̀mas Macedonian: антоним Malayalam: വിപരീതം Māori: kupu tauaro Māori: kupu taitua Māori: taitua Marathi: विरुद्धार्थी शब्द Norwegian: antonym Persian: متضاد
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