100 Examples of Antonymy

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Antonymy

The antonymy It is a semantic relationship that is established between two or more words that have opposite meanings or that are incompatible within the same context. For example: day / night, dead / alive, scratched / smooth.

The opposite of antonyms are the synonyms, words that share meaning. For example: cute / beautiful.

Types of antonyms

Examples of antonymy

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black White sick - healthy broken - healthy
fat - skinny get out come in light - shadow
cute - ugly Odd Couple cover - discover
High Low Laugh cry min MAX
big small lie, truth strong weak
far near wet dry fast slow
Summer Winter noise - silence cloudy - clear
Live dead hunger - satiety few - many
day Night Angel Demon just unfair
artificial - natural up and down coward - brave
cold hot full empty rich, poor
happy Sad hate love build - destroy
off - on easy hard take off landing
short long bad good Peace war
weak strong separate - unite order - chaos
clean dirty dark light altruism - selfishness
thin thick ancient - modern sit - stop
illegal - legal open close sleep - wake up
private public cheap expensive triumph - defeat
noise - silence early late show hide
pay - collect heavy light missing - leftover
give - receive polite - rude have - lack
save - spend old young blind - seer
speak - shut up brave - fearful cult - ignorant
single married up down clumsy - agile

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