- with
Lyons (1968, 1977)
defining antonym to mean
gradable antonyms, and
Crystal (2003)
warning that
antonymy and
antonym should be
regarded with care. Opposition...
- auto-
antonym, antagonym, enantiodrome, enantionym, J**** word (after the
Roman god J****, who is
usually depicted with two faces), self-
antonym, antilogy...
-
words usually have a
prefix or
suffix that
would imply that
there is an
antonym, with the
prefix or
suffix being absent or opposite. If the
prefix or suffix...
- to
place a
conjunction like and
between the two
antonyms; such
compounds (not
necessarily of
antonyms) are
known as
dvandvas (a term
taken from Sanskrit...
-
specify the love or
obsession with
something more specific. It is
somewhat antonymic to -phobia.
Philias can be
biological (e.g. rhizophilia,
preference for...
-
Salomon Krauss Other terms Synonyms ****ual
perversion (1880's-1920) ****ual
deviation (1952-1980; DSM and ICD) ****ociated
terms Normophilia (
antonym)...
- In linguistics,
converses or
relational antonyms are
pairs of
words that
refer to a
relationship from
opposite points of view, such as parent/child or...
-
shedding of petals,
after flowering; and to the
shedding of ripe fruit. The
antonym of
deciduous in the
botanical sense is evergreen. Generally, the term "deciduous"...
-
hapaxanth and semelparous. The
antonym is polycarpic, a
plant that
flowers and sets
seeds many
times during its lifetime; the
antonym of
semelparous is iteroparous...
- synonym.
Antonyms are
words with
opposite or
nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold,
large ↔ small,
thick ↔ thin,
synonym ↔
antonym Hypernyms...
