antonym
Meanings
Plural: antonyms
Noun
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
- "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"
- A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
- A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
- A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.
Origin / 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, opposite word
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
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