ANTONYMS

ANTONYMS


An antonym is a word which has opposite meaning of a word.


Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings. For example, the antonym of "hot" is "cold", the antonym of "happy" is "sad", and the antonym of "in" is "out". They play an important role in language, as they help to add precision and detail to communication by allowing speakers to express a wide range of ideas and emotions.


Antonyms can be used to express contrast and add emphasis to a statement. For example, "I am not cold, I am warm," or "I am not happy, I am extremely unhappy." They are also used in literature and poetry to create imagery and convey emotions. In addition, antonyms are often used in language learning as a tool for vocabulary building and to improve the ability to understand and use a language. Some other examples of antonyms are:


Big and small

Fast and slow

In and out

Up and down

Hot and cold

Old and young

Easy and hard

Good and bad

Near and far

Happy and sad

Antonyms are also known as antonymic pairs or complementaries.


A list of some commonly used antonyms is as follows:

ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH A

Sr. No WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Abbreviate Expand
02 Ability Incompetence
03 Abortive Successful
04 Above Below
05 Absolute Limited
06 Absurd Rational
07 Abundance Dearth
08 Accelerate Retard
09 Accept Reject
10 Accord Discord
11 Accuse Defend
12 Accustomed Unusual
13 Acquisition Loss
14 Acquit Convict
15 Active Passive
16 Admire Dislike
17 Advance Retreat
18 Advantage Loss
19 Adopt Reject
20 Adversity Prosperity
21 Affinity Aversion
22 Affirm Deny
23 Agree Differ
24 Allow Forbid
25 Amateur Professional
26 Ample Scanty
27 Analysis Synthesis
28 Ancestor Descendant
29 Ancient Modern
30 Appreciate Depreciate
31 Approximately Exactly
32 Arrival Departure
33 Arrogant Humble
34 Artificial Natural
35 Assemble Disperse
36 Assent Dissent
37 Ascent Descent
38 Assembly Dispersal
39 Assist Hinder
40 Attack Defence
41 Attack Repel
42 Attraction Repulsion
43 Authentic Spurious
44 Awful Pleasant


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH B

Sr. No. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Bar Allow
02 Barbarous Civilized
03 Barren Fertile
04 Base Noble
05 Basic Superficial
06 Beautiful Ugly
07 Beauty Ugliness
08 Begin End
09 Belief Disbelief
10 Beneficial Injurious
11 Benefactor Malefactor
12 Benevolent Malevolent
13 Big Small
14 Bleak Cheerful
15 Bless Curse
16 Bliss Misery
17 Blunt Sharp
18 Boisterous Quiet
19 Boom Bane
20 Borrow Lend
21 Bottom Top
22 Bravery Cowardice
23 Bound Free
24 Bright Dull
25 Build Demolish
26 Broad Narrow
27 Brutal Humane
28 Blunt Sharp


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH C

Sr. No WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Callous Soft
02 Calm Noisy
03 Care Neglect
04 Careful Careless
05 Cause Effect
06 Cautious Rash
07 Cease Praise
08 Certain Uncertain
09 Chaste Impure
10 Cheap Dear
11 Cheerful Gloomy
12 Civility Rudeness
13 Clean Dirty
14 Clever Stupid
15 Coarse Fine
16 Comic Tragic
17 Common Rare
18 Compare Contrast
19 Competent Incompetent
20 Compress Expand
21 Conceal Reveal
21 Conceited Modest
23 Concord Discord
24 Condemn Praise
25 Condense Lengthen
26 Confees Deny
27 Confidence Difference
28 Confident Different
29 Conservative Reactionary
30 Continue Discontinue
31 Contract Expand
32 Convex Concave
33 Cordial Cold
34 Costly Cheep
35 Create Destroy
36 Credit Discredit
37 Creditor Debtor
38 Crude Refined
39 Cruel Kind
40 Civilization Barbarism


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH D

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Dainty Gross
02 Damage Mend
03 Danger Safety
04 Darkness Light
05 Dawn Dusk
06 Decrease Increase
07 Deep Shallow
08 Defence Offence
09 Deficit Surplus
10 Deficient Proficient
11 Definite Indefinite
12 Delay Haste
13 Deliberately Accidentally
14 Delight Displeasure
15 Demote Promote
16 Dense Sparse
17 Deposit Withdraw
18 Descend Ascend
19 Despair Hope
20 Destruction Construction
21 Difficult Easy
22 Diffident Confident
23 Diligent Lazy
24 Discourage Encourage
25 Disguise Reveal
26 Distant Near
27 Distress Comfort
28 Domestic Wild
29 Doubt Believe
30 Dwarf Giant


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH E

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Early Late
02 Earthly Heavenly
03 Ebb Flow
04 Economy Extravagance
05 Elevation Degradation
06 Eligible Ineligible
07 Emancipate Enslave
08 End Beginning
09 Enemy Friend
10 Enmity Friendship
11 Eternal Temporal
12 Energetic Lazy
13 Entrance Exit
14 Enrich Impoverish
15 Enthrone Dethrone
16 Equality Inequality
17 Exceptional Ordinary
18 Exotic Indigenous
19 Expeditious Dilatory
29 Experienced Inexperienced
21 Explicit Implicit
22 Exquisite Gross
23 Extensive Intensive
24 Exterior Interior
25 External Internal
26 Extravagant Economical
27 Extrinsic Intrinsic


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH F

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Fabulous Actual
02 Fact Fiction
03 Failure Success
04 Fair Foul
05 Faithful Faithless
06 Fake Real
07 False True
08 Fame Infamy
09 Familiar Strange
10 Famous Obscure
11 Fanciful Practical
12 Far Near
13 Fast Slow
14 Fat Thin
15 Favour Disfavour
16 Fatigue Refresh
17 Ferocious Mild
18 Fertile Barren
19 Fickle Constant
20 Fictitious True
21 Final Initial
22 Fine Coarse
23 Firm Shaky
24 Flexible Stiff
25 Fold Unfold
26 Folly Wisdom
27 Forbid Allow
28 Foreign Native
29 Fortune Misfortune
30 Frank Reserve
31 Freedom Slavery
32 Friendly Hostile
33 Frequently Seldom
34 Fresh Stale
35 Front Rear
36 Frugal Extravagant
37 Futility Utility


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH G

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Gaiety Mourning
02 Gain Loss
03 Gather Scatter
04 General Particular
05 Generous Selfish
06 Genuine False
07 Gloomy Gay
08 Glory Shame
09 Go Come
10 Good Bad
11 Gorgeous Ugly
12 Growth Decline
13 Guess Sure
14 Guest Host
15 Guilty Innocent

ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH H

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Handsome Ugly
02 Happiness Sorrow
03 Hard Soft
04 Harsh Mild
05 Haste Delay
06 Hazy Clear
07 Haughty Hell
08 Help Hinder
09 Heavy Light
10 Hero Villain
11 Heroic Cowardly
12 Hide Seek
13 Homogeneous Mixed
14 Honest Dishonest
15 Honour Shame
16 Hope Despair
17 Horizontal Vertical
18 Humane Cruel
19 Humble Proud
20 Hypocrisy Sincerity


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH I

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Ignorance Knowledge
02 Immense Tiny
03 Impede Expedite
04 Imperative Optional
05 Import Export
06 Important Trivial
07 Include Exclude
08 Increase Decrease
09 Indolent Active
10 Independent Dependent
11 Industrious Lazy
12 Inferior Superior
13 Inhale Exhale
14 Inherit Bequeath
15 Insert Extract
16 Interested Disinterested
17 Interesting Uninteresting
18 Intricate Simple
19 Intrusive Extrusive
20 Invalid Valid


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH J

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Join Detach
02 Joy Sadness
03 Joyful Sad
04 Joint Separate
05 Jumbo Tiny
06 Junior Senior
07 Just Unjust
08 Justice Injustice
09 Juvenile Old


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH K

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Keen Indifferent
02 Kind Cruel
03 Knowing Ignorant
04 Knowledge Ignorance


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH L

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Lack plenty
02 Languid Energetic
03 Laugh Weep
04 Legal Illegal
05 Lead Follow
06 Least Most
07 Lend Borrow
08 Lenient Severe
09 Leniency Rigour
10 Lessen Enlarge
11 Liberal Orthodox
12 Liberty Slavery
13 Light Heavy
14 Like Unlike
15 Likeness Difference
16 Liquid Solid
17 Lock Unlock
18 Long Short
19 Loose Tight
20 Lose Gain
21 Love Hate
22 Loyal Treacherous


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH M

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Mad Sane
02 Magnify Reduce
03 Major Minor
04 Majority Minority
05 Make Mar
06 Malice Goodwill
07 Male Female
08 Masculine Feminine
09 Master Servant
10 Material Spiritual
11 Maximum Minimum
12 Meagre Plentiful
13 Meek Haughty
14 Melancholy Happy
15 Merit Demerit
16 Mighty Weak
17 Mild Harsh
18 Miraculous Ordinary
19 Miser Spendthrift
20 Miserly Generous
21 Moderate Excessive
22 Moderation Excess
23 Moral Immoral
24 Morbid Healthy
25 Mortal Immortal
26 Myth Fact


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH N

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Native Foreign
02 Natural Artificial
03 Neat Urtidy
04 Nervous Calm
05 Night Day
06 Noble Base, Ignoble
07 Normal Abnormal
08 Notorious Famous


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH O

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Obedient Disobedient
02 Obey Disobey
03 Objective Subjective
04 Obstinate Yielding
05 Obvious Vague
06 Odd Even
07 Often Seldom
08 Occasionally Constantly
09 Offensive Defensive
10 Ominous Auspicious
11 Omit Insert
12 Opaque Transparent
13 Open Shut
14 Opponent Ally
15 Optimist Pessimist
16 Optional Compulsory
17 Oral Written
18 Outward Inward


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH P

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Pale Bright
02 Part Whole
03 Partial Fair
04 Particular General
05 Passion Coolness
06 Pathetic Joyous
07 Peace War
08 Peculiar Ordinary
09 Perfect Imperfect
10 Permanent Temporary
11 Permit Prohibit
12 Persuade Dissuade
13 Physical Spiritual
14 Pious Impious
15 Please Displease
16 Pleasant Dull
17 Pleasure Pain
18 Plenty Scarcity
19 Poetry Prose
20 Polite Impolite
21 Poor Rich
22 Positive Negative
23 Poverty Affluence
24 Practicable Impracticable
25 Praise Condemn
26 Precious Cheap
27 Preliminary Final
28 Premium Discount
29 Pride Humility
30 Profit Loss
31 Primitive Modren
32 Prohibit Allow
33 Prospect Retrospect
34 Prosperity Adversity
35 Prudent Imprudent
36 Public Private
37 Pull Push
38 Punishment Reward
39 Pure Impure
40 Pursue Avoid


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH Q

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Qualified Unqualified
02 Quarrelsome Peaceful
03 Question Answer
04 Quick Slow
05 Quiet Noise
06 Quit Continue


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH R

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Raise Lower
02 Rapid Slow
03 Rare Common
04 Rash Steady
05 Raw Finished
06 Real False
07 Rear Front
08 Rebel Obey
09 Received Give
10 Reckless Thoughtful
11 Recognize Ignore
12 Rectify Falsify
13 Recover Lose
14 Reject Accept
15 Relevant Irrelevant
16 Religious Secular
17 Relish Dislike
18 Remember Forget
19 Remote Near
20 Repulsive Attractive
21 Reverend Unworthy
22 Rich Poor
23 Right Wrong
24 Rigid Flexible
25 Rise Fall
26 Resist Submit
27 Roar Whisper
28 Rough Smooth
29 Round Flat
30 Ruthless Humane

ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH S

Sr WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Sacred Unholy
02 Safe Unsafe
03 Safety Danger
04 Sale Purchase
05 Sane Insane
06 Satisfaction Dissatisfaction
07 Savage Civilized
08 Scanty plentiful
09 Secret Open
10 Secure Unsafe
11 Sensible Insensible
12 Sensitive Insensitive
13 Separate Joint
14 Service Disservice
15 Severe Mild
16 Sharp Blunt
17 Shy Bold
18 Silence Noise
19 Simple Difficult
20 Sink Swim
21 Sin Virtue
22 Slavery Freedom
23 Slow Prompt
24 Smart Dull
25 Smile Frown
26 Sober Excited
27 Soft Hard
28 Solid Liquid
29 Sophisticated Naive
30 Sorrow Joy
31 Special Ordinary
32 Speedy Slow
33 Spiritual Material
34 Stale Fresh
35 Stationary Moving
36 Steady Changing
37 Stern Lenient
38 Stiff Soft
39 Straight Curved
40 Strange Familiar
41 Sublime Ridiculous
42 Success Failure
43 Sufficient Insufficient
44 Suitable Awkward
45 Summit Base
46 Superior Inferior
47 Surplus Deficit
48 Suspect Trust
49 Swear Forswear
50 Sweet Bitter
51 Sympathy Antipathy
52 Synthesis Analysis


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH T

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Tame Wild
02 Tedious Lively
03 Temperate Intemperate
04 Temporal Spiritual
05 Temporary Permanent
06 Tender Hard
07 Thankful Thankless
08 Theory Practice
09 Thin Fat
10 Thrifty Extravagant
11 Thrilling Boring
12 Thrive Decline
13 Tight Loose
14 Timid Bold
15 Tolerance Intolerance
16 Top Bottom
17 Town Country
18 Tragic Comic
19 Tranquil Agitated
20 Transient Lasting
21 Transparent Opaque
22 Trap Release
23 True False
24 Truth lie


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH U

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Ugly Beautiful
02 Uniform Variable
03 Union Disunion
04 Uproar Peace
05 Urban Rural
06 Use Abuse
07 Useful Useless
08 Usual Unusual


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH V

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Vacant Occupied
02 Vague Clear
03 Vain Modest
04 Vanish Appear
05 Vertical Horizontal
06 Veto Approve
07 Vice Virtue
08 Victory Defeat
09 Vigilant Careless
10 Vindictive Forgiving
11 Violent Gentle
12 Virtue Vice
13 Visible Invisible
14 Vulgar Refined


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH W

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Wake Sleep
02 Wane Wax
03 Want Abundance
04 War Peace
05 Warmth Coolness
06 Waste Save
07 Wax Wane
08 Weal Woe
09 Wearisome Refreshing
10 Weighty Light
11 Wild Civilized
12 Woeful Cheerful
13 Work Idleness
14 Worn New
15 Wrong Right
16 Worthless Worthwhile


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH Y

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Yield Resist
02 Yoke Liberty
03 Young Old
04 Youth Age


ANTONYMS OF WORDS WITH Z

Sr. WORDS ANTONYMS
01 Zeal Indifference
02 Zenith Nadir, bottom

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