Example of Morphological Antonyms

Broadly speaking, an antonym is a word that has a meaning opposite or opposite to another. Generally, these types of words are considered within the same grammatical category as synonyms. In particular the morphological antonyms, are those words that incorporate a prefix before it that denotes the negation to which they refer. If we pay attention to the words that we habitually use, we will realize that many of them belong to this category. Therefore, these types of antonyms are more or less commonly used. The most used prefixes in this case are: a, an, anti, against, de, des, in, ir.

Example of morphological antonyms:

Constitutional - unconstitutional

Legal - illegal

Rational - irrational

Do - undo

Done - undone

Grow - decrease

Critical - uncritical

Political - apolitical

Real - unreal

Proportional - disproportional

Perfect - imperfect

Dye - fade

Connect disconnect

Plug in - unplug

Human - inhuman

Audible - inaudible

Understandable - incomprehensible

Natural - unnatural