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antonyms

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  1. Two words with opposite meanings. Cold and hot are antonyms; so are small and large. (Compare synonyms.)


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The antonyms of diversity, equity and inclusion are uniformity, inequality and exclusion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024

"Vocabularies, dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms, encyclopaedias are educational tools of reference and Treccani.it, as such, is consulted in schools, libraries and in all of our homes."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2021

It was a book of antonyms: the future, not the past; love, not hate.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

In fact, if we repeat the exercise with antonyms for shapes, sound intensities or even brightness in other foreign languages, we will still agree more than half the time.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2015

A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, and 5,000 words most often mispronounced. © 2May38; A117437.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office