Antonym

An antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word.  The first known use of the word antonym was in 1857.  Properly defined it means a word of opposite meaning and is a noun.

+Examples of antonyms hot  cold left  right up  down near  far small  big alive  dead young  old day  night male  female wet  dry stop  go fat  thin yes  no black  white teacher  student love  hate

Related pages
 Synonym - two words similar to each other
 Contronym - word that has two meanings

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