antonym
వ్యతిరేకపదం
definition
noun
The thesaurus provides synonyms, antonyms and related words, and is accessed by just right-clicking on the word to be looked up, and selecting ‘Thesaurus’ from the right-mouse menu.
a word opposite in meaning to another (e.g., bad and good ).
translation of 'antonym'
వ్యతిరేకార్థక పదం
example
Rather, ‘poor’ is used in a medieval sense as an 'antonym' to ‘powerful.’
Connoisseurs of the interesting - whose 'antonym' is the boring - appreciate clash, not harmony.
I need an 'antonym' for it, a way of describing a rather unfortunate concordance of events that leads to a horrible outcome rather than the pleasant coincidence that would normally befall.
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.
For most of my life I've gone so far in the opposite direction that if I knew the 'antonym' for hypochondria I'd employ it now.
Although this doesn't really translate into English, we nevertheless have a negative association between the liver and bravery, lexicalised in the 'antonym' of bravery: ‘lily-livered’.
Perfect if you enjoy the oxymoron of a synonym being an 'antonym' .
We pick up the occasional word - ‘ethical… responsible… trustworthy’ - and we sense that Bill is compiling an 'antonymous' description of the young man.
The words aren't precise 'antonyms' , but they're somewhat close to it.
It was years after retirement before I realized that rather than thinking of them as near synonyms that they were 'antonyms' .
All around the board were letters and at the centre two simple words - 'antonyms' of each other - yes and no.
It also catches dictionary and thesaurus sites and sends back deliberate misspellings, 'antonyms' instead of synonyms, etc.
Though the words sound like 'antonyms' , interdependence and independence are not mutually exclusive.
Pretending these are synonyms when in fact they are 'antonyms' is deceptive.
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.
To be sure, every linguist, when pursuing a semantic investigation, will collect information about collocations and will elicit judgements about entailments, 'antonyms' , and other meaning relations.
The thesaurus provides synonyms, 'antonyms' and related words, and is accessed by just right-clicking on the word to be looked up, and selecting ‘Thesaurus’ from the right-mouse menu.
So whatever is meant by "absolutism" is 'antonymous' to relativism.
I am conducting a questionnaire survey whose goal is to seek out differences in grammatical behaviour within pairs of 'antonymous' property words.
The 'antonyms' it offered: ‘reactionary’ and ‘intolerant.’
She also said I looked flushed and pale, but they're 'antonyms' so I have no idea what she was talking about.
What exactly are the differences between synonyms, 'antonyms' , and homonyms?
The students can practice synonyms and 'antonyms' on small computerized machines that give instant feedback and register a score with happy little dings and clicks.
The intention has not been to define or discriminate them, but to arrange them in synonymous and 'antonymous' groups; it serves as both a word-finder and a prompter of the memory regarding words one knows but could not recall to mind.
'Antonymous' pairs have previously been described and categorized in terms of gradability, reciprocity, inverseness and so on.
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