Antonyms for Building Vocabulary

Antonyms for Building Vocabulary

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Antonyms for Building Vocabulary

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." Hence,  a word that has the exact opposite meaning of another word is its antonym. Most antonyms can be formed by simply adding prefixes such as im, in, dis, un.

Here is a list of antonyms for your better understanding.

A

  • Absent - present
  • Abundant - scarce
  • Accept - decline, refuse
  • Accurate - inaccurate
  • Admit - deny
  • Advantage - disadvantage
  • Against - for
  • Agree - disagree
  • Alive - dead
  • All - none, nothing
  • Ally - enemy
  • Always - never
  • Ancient - modern
  • Answer - question
  • Antonym - synonym
  • Apart - together
  • Appear - disappear, vanish
  • Approve - disapprove
  • Arrive - depart
  • Artificial - natural
  • Ascend - descend
  • Attic - cellar
  • Attractive - repulsive
  • Awake - asleep

B

  • Backward - forward
  • Bad - good
  • Beautiful - ugly
  • Before - after
  • Begin - end
  • Below - above
  • Bent - straight
  • Best - worst
  • Better - worse, worst
  • Big - little, small
  • Bitter - sweet
  • Black - white
  • Blame - praise
  • Bless - curse
  • Bold - meek, timid
  • Borrow - lend
  • Bottom - top
  • Bound - unbound, free
  • Boundless - limited
  • Boy - girl
  • Brave - cowardly
  • Bright - dim, dull
  • Brighten - fade
  • Broad - narrow
  • Build - destroy

 

C

 

  • Calm - windy, troubled
  • Can - cannot, can't
  • Capable - incapable
  • Captive - free
  • Careful - careless
  • Cheap - expensive
  • Cheerful - sad, discouraged, dreary
  • Clear - cloudy, opaque
  • Clever - stupid
  • Clockwise - counter clockwise
  • Close - far, distant
  • Closed - ajar, open
  • Clumsy - graceful
  • Cold - hot
  • Combine - separate
  • Come - go
  • Comfort - discomfort
  • Common - rare
  • Compulsory - voluntary
  • Conceal - reveal
  • Contract - expand
  • Cool - warm
  • Correct - incorrect, wrong
  • Courage - cowardice
  • Courteous - discourteous, rude
  • Create - destroy
  • Crooked - straight
  • Cruel - kind

D

  • Dangerous - safe
  • Dark - light
  • Day - night
  • Daytime - night-time
  • Dead - alive
  • Decline - accept, increase
  • Decrease - increase
  • Deep - shallow
  • Definite - indefinite
  • Demand - supply
  • Despair - hope
  • Dim - bright
  • Disappear - appear
  • Discourage - encourage
  • Diseased - healthy
  • Down - up
  • Downwards - upwards
  • Dreary - cheerful
  • Dry - moist, wet
  • Dull - bright, shiny
  • Dusk - dawn

 

E

  • Early - late
  • East - west
  • Easy - hard, difficult
  • Empty - full
  • Encourage - discourage
  • End - begin, start
  • Enter - exit
  • Even - odd
  • Expand - contract
  • Export - import
  • Exterior - interior
  • External - internal

 

F

  • Fade - brighten
  • Fail - succeed
  • False - true
  • Famous - unknown
  • Far - near
  • Fast - slow
  • Fat - thin
  • Feeble - strong, powerful
  • Few - many
  • Find - lose
  • First - last
  • Float - sink
  • Fold - unfold
  • Foolish - wise
  • For - against
  • Fore - aft
  • Forget - remember
  • Fortunate - unfortunate
  • Found - lost
  • Free - bound, captive
  • Frequent - seldom
  • Fresh - stale
  • Friend - enemy
  • Full - empty

 

G

  • Generous - stingy
  • Gentle - rough
  • Get - give
  • Giant - tiny, small, dwarf
  • Girl - boy
  • Give - receive, take
  • Glad - sad, sorry
  • Gloomy - cheerful
  • Go - stop
  • Good - bad, evil
  • Grant - refuse
  • Great - tiny, small, unimportant
  • Grow - shrink
  • Guest - host
  • Guilty - innocent

H

  • Happy - sad
  • Hard - easy
  • Hard - soft
  • Harmful - harmless
  • Harsh - mild
  • Hate - love
  • Haves - have-nots
  • Healthy - diseased, ill, sick
  • Heaven - hell
  • Heavy - light
  • Help - hinder
  • Here - there
  • Hero - coward
  • High - low
  • Hill - valley
  • Hinder - help
  • Honest - dishonest
  • Horizontal - vertical
  • Hot - cold
  • Humble - proud

 

I

  • ill - healthy, well
  • immense - tiny, small
  • important - trivial
  • in - out
  • include - exclude
  • increase - decrease
  • inferior - superior
  • inhale - exhale
  • inner - outer
  • inside - outside
  • intelligent - stupid, unintelligent
  • intentional - accidental
  • interesting - boring
  • interesting - dull, uninteresting
  • interior - exterior
  • internal - external

 

J

  • join - separate
  • junior - senior
  • just - unjust
  • justice - injustice

K

  • knowledge - ignorance
  • known – unknown

 

L

 

  • landlord - tenant
  • large - small
  • last - first
  • laugh - cry
  • lawful - unlawful, illegal
  • lazy - industrious
  • leader - follower
  • left - right
  • lend -borrow
  • lengthen - shorten
  • lenient - strict
  • less - more
  • light - dark, heavy
  • like - dislike, hate
  • likely - unlikely
  • limited - boundless
  • little - big
  • long - short
  • loose - tight
  • lose - find
  • loss - win
  • loud - quiet
  • love - hate
  • low - high
  • loyal - disloyal

 

M

  • mad - happy, sane
  • major - minor
  • many - few
  • mature - immature
  • maximum - minimum
  • melt - freeze
  • merry - sad
  • messy - neat
  • minor - major
  • minority - majority
  • miser - spendthrift
  • misunderstand - understand
  • more - less

 

N

  • nadir - zenith
  • narrow - wide
  • near - far, distant
  • neat - messy, untidy
  • never - always
  • new - old
  • night - day
  • nighttime - daytime
  • no - yes
  • noisy - quiet
  • none - some
  • north - south

O

  • obedient - disobedient
  • odd - even
  • offer - refuse
  • old - new
  • old - young
  • on - off
  • open - closed, shut
  • opposite- same, similar
  • optimist - pessimist
  • out - in
  • outer - inner
  • over - under

 

P

  • past - present
  • patient - impatient
  • peace - war
  • permanent - temporary
  • plentiful - scarce
  • plural - singular
  • poetry - prose
  • polite - rude, impolite
  • possible - impossible
  • poverty - wealth, riches
  • powerful - weak
  • pretty - ugly
  • private - public
  • prudent - imprudent
  • pure - impure, contaminated
  • push - pull
  •  
  • Q
  • qualified - unqualified
  • question - answer
  • quiet - loud, noisy

R

  • raise - lower
  • rapid - slow
  • rare - common
  • real - fake
  • regular - irregular
  • rich - poor
  • right - left, wrong
  • right-side-up - upside-down
  • rough - smooth
  • rude - courteous

 

S

  • safe - unsafe
  • same - opposite
  • satisfactory - unsatisfactory
  • scatter - collect
  • second-hand - new
  • secure - insecure
  • separate - join, together
  • serious - trivial
  • shallow - deep
  • shrink - grow
  • sick - healthy, ill
  • simple - complex, hard
  • singular - plural
  • sink - float
  • slim - fat, thick
  • slow - fast
  • sober - drunk
  • soft - hard
  • some - none
  • sorrow - joy
  • sour - sweet
  • sow -reap
  • start - finish
  • stop - go
  • straight - crooked
  • strict - lenient
  • strong - weak
  • success - failure
  • sunny - cloudy
  • sweet - sour
  • synonym - antonym

T

  • take - give
  • tall - short
  • tame - wild
  • them - us
  • there - here
  • thick - thin
  • tight - loose, slack
  • tiny - big, huge
  • together - apart
  • top - bottom
  • tough - easy, tender
  • transparent - opaque
  • true - false
  • truth - falsehood, lie, untruth

 

U

  • under - over
  • unfold - fold
  • unknown - known
  • unqualified - qualified
  • unsafe - safe
  • up - down
  • upside-down - right-side-up
  • upstairs - downstairs
  • us - them
  • useful - useless

V

  • vacant - occupied
  • vanish - appear
  • vast - tiny
  • victory - defeat
  • virtue - vice
  • visible - invisible
  • voluntary - compulsory

W

  • war - peace
  • wax - wane
  • weak - strong
  • wet - dry
  • white - black
  • wide - narrow
  • win - lose
  • wisdom - folly, stupidity
  • within - outside
  • wrong - right

Y

  • yes - no
  • yin - yang
  • young - old
  • zenith - nadir
  • zip - unzip

 

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