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antonym There's no point in telling a three-year-old that cat isn't an antonym of dog, and sun isn't an antonym of moon. antonym*

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A word that means the opposite of some other word. Antonym includes the Greek prefix ant-, meaning “opposite” (see ANT/ANTI). Antonyms are often thought of in pairs: hot/cold, up/down, wet/dry, buy/sell, failure/success. But a word may have more than one antonym (old/young, old/new), especially when one of the words has synonyms (small/large, small/big, little/big), and a word may have many approximate antonyms (adore/hate, adore/detest, adore/loathe). But although lots of words have synonyms, not so many have antonyms. What would be the antonym of pink? weather? semipro? thirty? firefighter? wax? about? consider

word	antonym
definition	A word that means the opposite of some other word.
eg_sentence	There's no point in telling a three-year-old that cat isn't an antonym of dog, and sun isn't an antonym of moon.
explanation	Antonym includes the Greek prefix ant-, meaning “opposite” (see ANT/ANTI). Antonyms are often thought of in pairs: hot/cold, up/down, wet/dry, buy/sell, failure/success. But a word may have more than one antonym (old/young, old/new), especially when one of the words has synonyms (small/large, small/big, little/big), and a word may have many approximate antonyms (adore/hate, adore/detest, adore/loathe). But although lots of words have synonyms, not so many have antonyms. What would be the antonym of pink? weather? semipro? thirty? firefighter? wax? about? consider
IPA	antonym*

Antonym Word Means Opposite Point Telling Three Year Old Cat