| 单词 | antonym |
| 释义 | antonym (once / 12148 pages) n A word that has the exact opposite meaning of another word is its antonym. Life is full of antonyms, from the "stop" and "go" of a traffic signal to side-by-side restroom doors labeled "men" and "women." Most antonyms are pretty obvious, like "good" and "bad," or "black" and "white." Some words can be transformed into their antonyms simply by adding the prefixes "un," "in," or "non," as when "likable" is changed into its antonym, "unlikable." The word antonym itself takes the Greek word anti, meaning "opposite," and adds it to -onym, which comes from the Greek onoma, or "name." So antonym literally means "opposite-name." WORD FAMILYantonym: antonymous, antonyms USAGE EXAMPLESHe could link play when necessary but at his best he was the antonym of tiki-taka: he just ran through everything and scored a goal. The Guardian(Sep 17, 2016) They are a display of greed and selflessness, arrogance and confidence, of compulsiveness and determination, and of nearly every other human trait and it's antonym. New York Times(Aug 10, 2016) It was a book of antonyms: the future, not the past; love, not hate. The New Yorker(Aug 01, 2016) n 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' Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper opposite, opposite word equivalent word, synonym two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context direct antonym antonyms that are commonly associated (e.g., `wet' and `dry') indirect antonymantonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry') word a unit of language that native speakers can identify |
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