antonym

See also: 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^(key): /ˈæn.təˌnɪm/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

antonym (plural antonyms)

1. (semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.

   Synonyms: counterterm, opposite

   Antonym: synonym

   Coordinate terms: coordinate term, cohyponym; antiphrasis; near-synonym, parasynonym, plesionym

   “Rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”.

   1. 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^[2], 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

word which has the opposite meaning

• Afrikaans: teenoorgestelde (af)
• Albanian: antonim (sq) m
• Arabic: عَكْس (ar) m (ʕaks), نَقِيض m (naqīḍ)
• Armenian: հականիշ (hy) (hakaniš)
• Belarusian: анто́нім m (antónim)
• Bulgarian: антони́м (bg) m (antoním)
• Catalan: antònim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反義詞 / 反义词 (zh) (fǎnyìcí)

• Czech: antonymum (cs) n, opozitum (cs) n
• Danish: antonym (da) n
• Dutch: tegendeel (nl) n, tegengestelde (nl) n, antoniem (nl) n
• Esperanto: antonimo, mal-vorto
• Estonian: antonüüm
• Faroese: andheiti n
• Finnish: antonyymi (fi), vastakohta (fi)
• French: antonyme (fr) m
• Galician: antónimo (gl) m
• Georgian: ანტონიმი (ka) (anṭonimi)
• German: Antonym (de) n, Gegenwort (de) n, Gegensatzwort (de) n, Gegenbegriff m
• Greek: αντώνυμο (el) n (antónymo)
• Hebrew: הֶפֶךְ / היפך (he) m (héfech)
• Hindi: विपर्याय m (viparyāy), विपरीतार्थी शब्द (viprītārthī śabd), विलोम (hi) (vilom)
• Hungarian: ellentét (hu), antonima (hu)
• Icelandic: andheiti (is) n, andrætt orð n
• Indonesian: lawan kata, antonim (id)
• Interlingua: antonymo
• Italian: contrario (it) m, (uncommon) antonimo (it) m
• Japanese: 対義語 (ja) (たいぎご, taigigo), 反意語 (ja) (はんいご, han'igo), 反対語 (ja) (はんたいご, hantaigo)
• Khmer: ន័យផ្ទុយ (ney ptuy)
• Korean: 반의어(反義語/反意語) (ko) (banuieo), 반대어(反對語) (ko) (bandaeeo)
• Latin: antonymum
• Latvian: antonīms (lv) m
• Lithuanian: antonìmas (lt) m
• Macedonian: антоним m (antonim)
• Malayalam: വിപരീതം (ml) (viparītaṁ)
• Maori: kupu tauaro, kupu taitua, taitua
• Marathi: विरुद्धार्थी शब्द (viruddhārthī śabda)
• Norwegian: antonym (no)
• Persian: متضاد (fa) (motazâd)
• Polish: antonim (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: antónimo (pt) m (Portugal), antônimo (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: antonim (ro) n
• Russian: анто́ним (ru) m (antónim)
• Scottish Gaelic: frith-fhacal m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: антоним m

  Roman: antonim (sh) m, nasuprotnica f, odveznica f

• Sicilian: antònimu (scn) m, cuntrariu (scn) m
• Slovak: antonymum n
• Slovene: prótipoménka (sl) f, antoním (sl) m
• Spanish: antónimo (es) m
• Swedish: motsatsord (sv) n, antonym (sv) c
• Tagalog: kasalungat
• Tamil: எதிர்ச்சொல் (ta) (etirccol)
• Telugu: వ్యతిరేక పదము (te) (vyatirēka padamu)
• Thai: คำตรงกันข้าม (kam dtrong gan kâam)
• Turkish: karşıtanlamlı, antonim
• Ukrainian: анто́нім (uk) m (antónim)
• Vietnamese: từ trái nghĩa (詞賴義)
• Welsh: gwrthwynebair (cy)

See also

• Semantic relations

Further reading

• antonym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Adjective

antonym

1. antonymous

Inflection

Inflection of antonym

	positive	comparative	superlative
indefinite common singular	antonym	—	—2
indefinite neuter singular	antonymt	—	—2
plural	antonyme	—	—2
definite attributive1	antonyme	—	—

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)

1. antonym

Declension

Declension of antonym

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	antonym	antonymet	antonymer	antonymerne
genitive	antonyms	antonymets	antonymers	antonymernes

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)

1. 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)

1. antonym

Antonyms

• synonym

References

• “antonym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Adjective

antonym (comparative mer antonym, superlative mest antonym)

1. antonymous

Declension

Inflection of antonym

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	antonym	mer antonym	mest antonym
neuter singular	antonymt	mer antonymt	mest antonymt
plural	antonyma	mer antonyma	mest antonyma
masculine plural2	antonyme	mer antonyma	mest antonyma
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	antonyme	mer antonyme	mest antonyme
all	antonyma	mer antonyma	mest antonyma

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

1. antonym

Declension

Declension of antonym

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	antonym	antonyms
	definite	antonymen	antonymens
plural	indefinite	antonymer	antonymers
	definite	antonymerna	antonymernas

References

• antonym in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• anonymt