Antonyms and synonyms are commonly used in English, so it’s important to learn the difference between them.
What is an antonym?
An antonym is a word or phrase that has the opposite meaning as another word or phrase.
Antonyms help to improve your vocabulary and make writing and speaking more interesting when expressing ideas. Antonyms are also useful when developing themes in writing.
For example, big and small are antonyms because they have opposite meanings.
➜ The elephant is small.
➜ The elephant is big.
The adjective big means of large size, whereas the adjective small means of limited size.
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For example, right and wrong are antonyms because they have opposite meanings.
➜ That is the right answer.
➜ That is the wrong answer.
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Some other examples of antonyms are:
Above － Below
Always － Never
Bad － Good
Before － After
Best － Worst
Early － Late
Empty － Full
Full － Empty
Fast － Slow
Give － Receive
Hard － Soft
In － Out
Loud － Quiet
Lend － Borrow
Many － Few
Old － Young
Pretty － Ugly
Tall － Short
Under － Over
The opposite of an antonym is a synonym. A synonym is a word or phrase that has the same meaning as another word or phrase.
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What is an antonym?
An antonym is a word or phrase that has the opposite meaning as another word or phrase.
Antonyms help to improve your vocabulary and make writing and speaking more interesting when expressing ideas. Antonyms are also useful when developing themes in writing.
For example, big and small are antonyms because they have opposite meanings.
➜ The elephant is small.
➜ The elephant is big.
The adjective big means of large size, whereas the adjective small means of limited size.
______________________________
For example, right and wrong are antonyms because they have opposite meanings.
➜ That is the right answer.
➜ That is the wrong answer.
______________________________
Some other examples of antonyms are:
Above － Below
Always － Never
Bad － Good
Before － After
Best － Worst
Early － Late
Empty － Full
Full － Empty
Fast － Slow
Give － Receive
Hard － Soft
In － Out
Loud － Quiet
Lend － Borrow
Many － Few
Old － Young
Pretty － Ugly
Tall － Short
Under － Over
The opposite of an antonym is a synonym. A synonym is a word or phrase that has the same meaning as another word or phrase.
Click here to learn all about synonyms.
What is a synonym?
A synonym is a word or phrase that has a similar or the exact meaning as another word or phrase.
Therefore synonyms can be used interchangeably within a sentence and the sentence would still have the same meaning. An easy way to remember the meaning is to remember that the word synonym begins with the letter S (for same).
It’s important to learn as many synonyms as possible as this will help you to improve your writing and speaking.
Synonyms help to improve your vocabulary and make writing and speaking more interesting when expressing ideas. A thesaurus can help you to learn synonyms for different words.
For example the words big and huge are synonyms because they have the same meanings.
➜ The elephant is big.
➜ The elephant is huge.
The adjective big and huge both mean of large size.
______________________________
For example, right and correct are synonyms because they have the same meanings.
➜ That is the right answer.
➜ That is the correct answer.
______________________________
Some other examples of synonyms are:
Alike － Same
Answer － Reply
Begin － Start
Center － Middle
Dangerous － Unsafe
Enjoy － Like
False － Untrue
Go － Move
Ignore － Disregard
Listen － Hear
Make － Build
Nice － Pleasant
Rich － Wealthy
Smart － Intelligent
Scared － Afraid
Small － Tiny
Try － Attempt
Uncommon － Unusual
What is a synonym?
A synonym is a word or phrase that has a similar or the exact meaning as another word or phrase.
Therefore synonyms can be used interchangeably within a sentence and the sentence would still have the same meaning. An easy way to remember the meaning is to remember that the word synonym begins with the letter S (for same).
It’s important to learn as many synonyms as possible as this will help you to improve your writing and speaking.
Synonyms help to improve your vocabulary and make writing and speaking more interesting when expressing ideas. A thesaurus can help you to learn synonyms for different words.
For example the words big and huge are synonyms because they have the same meanings.
➜ The elephant is big.
➜ The elephant is huge.
The adjective big and huge both mean of large size.
______________________________
For example, right and correct are synonyms because they have the same meanings.
➜ That is the right answer.
➜ That is the correct answer.
______________________________
Some other examples of synonyms are:
Alike － Same
Answer － Reply
Begin － Start
Center － Middle
Dangerous － Unsafe
Enjoy － Like
False － Untrue
Go － Move
Ignore － Disregard
Listen － Hear
Make － Build
Nice － Pleasant
Rich － Wealthy
Smart － Intelligent
Scared － Afraid
Small － Tiny
Try － Attempt
Uncommon － Unusual
