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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

Among the antonyms for “nice” in Roget’s Thesaurus are “ugly,” “horrible,” “nasty” and “repulsive.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2020

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

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

Discrimination in the use of words is secured by The study of synonyms antonyms homonyms and care in employing them.

From Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton

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