antonym
Word's polar counterpart
An antonym is a word with a meaning opposite to another.
Antonyms must be the same part of speech.
Most speakers agree informally on what word pairs are antonyms, even though there is usually a category of understanding in which antonyms can be considered the same thing, not opposites.
Thus go and come are antonyms, even though they’re both verbs of motion, and black and white are antonyms, even though they are both colors.
Reverse or contrary thing
- contraryOpposed in nature
- reverseTurn to opposite
- converseEngage in dialogue
- antithesisDirect opposite; contrasting juxtaposition
inverse · counterpart · contradictory · negation · polar opposite · contrast · conflicting · incompatible
Admitting of degrees
- complementaryMutually supplying lacks
- relationalConcerning connections between things
- converseEngage in dialogue
- contradictoryLogically opposed to itself
binary · scalar · polar · directional · contronym
opposite
Reverse or contrary thing
antithesis · inverse · counterpart · contradictory · negation · polar opposite · contrast · conflicting · incompatible · irreconcilable
gradable
Admitting of degrees
- complementaryMutually supplying lacks
- relationalConcerning connections between things
- converseEngage in dialogue
contradictory · binary · scalar · polar · directional · contronym
homophone
Identically pronounced, differently spelled word
- homographShared spelling, separate meanings
- hypernymBroader categorical term
- paronymRelated word, similar form
polysemy · lexeme · morpheme · semantics · etymology · lexicon · thesaurus · word · definition · meaning
on/off
Binary power states
- languagelanguage, word, words, grammar, spelling
- vocabularyword, words, new words, term, terms
- Greek wordsalpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon
- linguistic termsanagram, homophone, homograph, palindrome, portmanteau
- linguisticslinguistics, phoneme, phonemes, morpheme, morphemes
- word typesprefix, suffix, root word, proper noun, common noun
antonymsynonym
Word meaning the same
equivalent · same · cognate · likeness · similarity