antonym
Etymology
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Etymology
From French antonyme (1840s and 1850s), which was modeled on earlier synonyme and influenced by the etymons of Ancient Greek ἀντωνυμία; credit for popularization of the French loanword's naturalization into English is given principally to Charles John Smith and his 1867 book ''Synonyms and Antonyms: Or, Kindred Words and Their Opposites.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈæn.təˌnɪm/
antonym (plural antonyms)
- (semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
- Synonyms: counterterm, opposite
- Antonyms: synonym
- Coordinate terms: coordinate term, cohyponym; antiphrasis; near-synonym, parasynonym, plesionym
- “Rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”.
- A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.
- French: antonyme
- German: Antonym, Gegenwort, Gegensatzwort, Gegenbegriff
- Italian: contrario, (uncommon) antonimo
- Portuguese: antónimo (Portugal), antônimo (Brazil)
- Russian: анто́ним
- Spanish: antónimo
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