# antonym
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: ǎnt′ənĭm'
* IPA: /ˈæn.təˌnɪm/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪm

### Noun

antonym (plural antonyms)
* (semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
    Synonyms: counterterm, opposite
    Antonym: synonym
    Coordinate terms: near-antonym; coordinate term, cohyponym; antiphrasis; near-synonym, parasynonym, plesionym
    “Rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”.
** A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.
*** 2005, Andrew John Merrison, Aileen Bloomer, Patrick Griffiths, Christopher J. Hall, Introducing Language in Use‎, page 111:All four lines of the pattern are required to establish that hot and cold are antonyms. The water is hot entails The water is not cold. The water is cold entails The water is not hot. The water is not hot does not entail The water is cold. The water is not cold does not entail The water is hot.

#### Derived terms

* antonymic
* antonymize
* antonymous
* antonymy
* autantonym
* autoantonym
* binary antonym
* complementary antonym
* contradictory antonym
* converse antonym
* gradable antonym
* polar antonym
* relational antonym

#### Translations
### See also

* Wiktionary:Semantic relations

### References

* ↑ Charles John Smith (1868) [1867] Synonyms and Antonyms: Or, Kindred Words and Their Opposites. Collected and Contrasted‎, 2nd edition, London: Bell and Daldy

### Further reading

* antonym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Danish
### Adjective

antonym
* antonymous

#### Inflection

$^1$ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. $^2$ The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

### Noun

antonym n (singular definite antonymet, plural indefinite antonymer)
* antonym

#### Related terms

* antonymi

### References

* “antonym” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντωνυμία (antōnumía), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name, noun”).

### Noun

antonym n (definite singular antonymet, indefinite plural antonym or antonymer, definite plural antonyma or antonymene)
* antonym

#### Antonyms

* synonym

### References

* “antonym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντωνυμία (antōnumía), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name, noun”).

### Noun

antonym n (definite singular antonymet, indefinite plural antonym, definite plural antonyma)
* antonym

#### Antonyms

* synonym

### References

* “antonym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Adjective

antonym (comparative mer antonym, superlative mest antonym)
* antonymous

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

### Noun

antonym c
* antonym

#### Declension
### References

* antonym in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

### Anagrams

* anonymt