antonym
an·to·nym
noun
Origin
From French antonyme (1840s and 1850s), which was modeled on earlier synonyme and influenced by the etymons of Ancient Greek ἀντωνυμία (antōnumía, “pronoun”); credit for popularization of the French loanword's naturalization into English is given principally to Charles John Smith and his 1867 book Synonyms and Antonyms: Or, Kindred Words and Their Opposites. Collected and Contrasted. By surface analysis, ant- + -onym.
Phrases
- binary antonym
- complementary antonym
- contradictory antonym
- converse antonym
- gradable antonym
- polar antonym
- relational antonym
- Wiktionary:Semantic relations
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