The below list of translations of antonyms is provided by Word Sense. These are called cognates, which are words and phrases in different languages that likely have the same root or language of origin, causing them to sound the same. You may notice that some of these translations of antonyms look and sound similar to one another.

Many different languages also contain words that mean antonyms. If you are trying to grow your English language vocabulary, try looking up antonyms to words that you already know the definition of.

Learning opposites is a great way to quickly and easily expand your vocabulary. A word that has the opposite meaning of another word can be relational antonyms, graded antonyms/gradable antonyms and more. This could also be known as a counter name. Linguists use antonyms to sense relation. This part of speech is a mix of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and verbs. The absolute opposites the antonym of hero and villain have lesser opposites in hero and coward. This comes from antonymie, borrowed from Greek antōnymía, from ant- and anti- attached to -ōnymos.Īntonyms can have a binary relationship and be exact opposites, opposites of equal weighting, or have shades of oppositeness. According to Merriam-Webster, the word antonym was borrowed from the French antonyme, and was probably aback-formation after synonyme meaning synonym. There are a few different “nym” words in English – there are also synonyms, which are words with the same meaning, and homonyms, which are words that are pronounced and spelled the same, but have different meanings. According to Your Dictionary, antonyms are words that have the opposite meaning.

What is an antonym