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ANTONYM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other

Example:

to him the antonym of 'gay' was 'depressed'

Synonyms:

antonym; opposite; opposite word

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("antonym" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antonym"):

direct antonym (antonyms that are commonly associated (e.g., 'wet' and 'dry'))

indirect antonym (antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of 'wet' and 'parched' is mediated by the similarity of 'parched' to 'dry'))

Antonym:

synonym (two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context)

Derivation:

antonymous (of words: having opposite meanings)

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