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VOCABULARY DEFINITION - Antonym

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Post  Vincent Law Fri May 11, 2012 12:23 pm

VOCABULARY DEFINITION - Antonym:

An antonym is a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"

opposite, opposite word

- direct antonym - antonyms that are commonly associated (e.g., `wet' and `dry').
- indirect antonym - antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry').
- equivalent word, synonym - two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context.

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