antonym

How To Use antonym In A Sentence

• The range of the word would be the definitions contained in the dictionary, and the field would be all the synonyms and antonyms that might be found in a thesaurus.
• Regrettably, they have now become somewhat antonymous. Times, Sunday Times
• Having identified the discourse functions of antonymy in adult writing and speech, I'm now examining children's language to discover how and when ‘opposites’ are first learnt.
• For example, the words hot and cold are antonyms that describe physical temperature.
• A term often used as an antonym to pluralism to describe a state in which politics, society, and economy are all subject to the control of an elite or a party.
• The antonym to tight is not ‘loose’ - logic has no place in the coinage of neologisms - but janky, also spelled and pronounced jinky or jainky.
• Atlantic Blog identifies the antonymy for the typically academic Heidegger, the "ordinary business manager" Victor Kugler. Archive 2008-11-01
• In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.
• A book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonyms. synonym = "synonymicon" (or you might use a 'brand name', e.g., "look it up in your Roget's" just as you might use "Webster's" as a general term for dictionary). Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
• Similar to antonymous paradigmatic relation , differentiated paradigmatic relation is created from peoples psychological association.