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OPPOSITE WORD
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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 ("opposite word" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "opposite word"):
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'))
