Antonyms

Antonyms

Words having opposite meanings are called Antonyms.

Antonyms
Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
Abolish	Create	Above	Below, beneath
Absent	Present	Abstract	Concrete
Abundance	Shortage, scarcity	Accept	Reject, refuse
Acquit	Convict	Active	passive
Advance	Retreat	Advantage	Disadvantage
Adversity	Prosperity	Affinity	Antipathy
Affirm	Deny	Affluence	Poverty
Agile	Clumsy	Agony	Ease
Agree	Differ	Agreeable	Disagreeable
Allow	Disallow, forbid	Always	Never
All	none	Alleviate	Aggravate
Ample	scanty	Analysis	Synthesis
Ancestor	Descendant	Ancient	Modern
Angel	Devil	Angry	pleased
Anonymous	Authentic	Appear	Disappear, Vanish
Apostate	Loyalist	Aristocrat	Plebeian
Arrival	Departure	Artificial	Real
Ascend	Descend	Assent	Dissent
Asset	Liability	Assail	Defend
Attach	Defend	Attract	Repel
Awake	Asleep	Awkward	graceful

Antonyms
Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
blunt	sharp	best	worst
better	worse	blame	praise
bad	good	bless	curse
backward	forward, onward	bitter	sweet
bend	straighten	borrow	lend
beautiful	ugly	bravery	cowardice
beginning	ending	build	destroy, demolish
below	above	bold	timid, meek
bent	straight	bright	dull
big	small, little	broad	narrow
careful	rush, careless	clear	vague, cloudy

Antonyms
Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
Calm	troubled	deep	shallow
Capable	incapable	decrease	increase
captivity	freedom, liberty	definite	indefinite
cellar	attic	demand	supply
cheap	expensive	despair	hope
close	distant	disappear	appear
clever	stupid	disease	health
cold	hot	discourage	encourage
combine	separate	dismal	cheerful
clockwise	anti-clockwise	doctor	patient
correct	incorrect	dry	wet
conceal	reveal	dull	clear, bright
come	go	dusk	dawn
common	rare	early	late
comfort	discomfort	easy	difficult
courage	cowardice	ebb	flow
cruel	kind	East	West
courteous	discourteous, rude	economise	waste
cunning	simple	encourage	discourage
dainty	clumsy	entrance	exit
danger	safety	employer	employee
dark	light	empty	full
excited	calm	found	lost
end	beginning	fresh	stale
expand	contract	friend	enemy
expensive	inexpensive, cheap	fortunate	unfortunate
export	import	frank	secretive
exterior	interior	full	empty
external	internal	generous	mean
fail	succeed	gentle	rough
false	true	gather	distribute
feeble	sturdy, strong, powerful	glad	sorry
foolish	wise	gloomy	cheerful
fast	slow	giant	dwarf, pygmy
few	many	granted	refused
famous	unknown	great	minute, small, little
forelegs	hindlegs	guardian	ward
fat	thin	guest	host
find	lose	guilty	innocent
first	last	happy	sad, miserable
freedom	captivity	hard	soft
fold	unfold	harmful	harmless
frequent	seldom	hasten	dawdle
forget	remember	hate	love
interesting	uninteresting, dull	like	dislike, unlike
internal	external	likely	unlikely
intentional	accidental	leader	follower
join	separate	little	large, much, big
junior	senior	lofty	lowly
justice	injustice	long	short
king	subject	loud	soft
knowledge	ignorance	loss	find, win
laugh	cry	low	high
lawful	unlawful	loyal	disloyal
lazy	industrious, energetic	mad	sane
land	sea	magnetize	demagnetize
landlord	tenant	master	servant
large	little, small	mature	immature
last	first	maximum	minimum
lawyer	client	me	you
lecturer	student	merry	mirthless, sad
lender	borrower	minority	majority
lengthen	shorten	miser	spendthrift
left	right	misunderstand	understand
less	more	narrow	wide
light	dark, heavy	near	far, distant

Antonyms
Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
Healthy	unhealthy, ill, diseased	inside	outside
here	there	interior	exterior, outside
heavy	light	solid	liquid
height	depth	sober	drunk
hero	coward	speaker	listener
hill	valley	sour	sweet
horizontal	vertical	sorrow	joy
hinder	aid, help	sow	reap
honest	dishones	stand	lie
humble	proud	straight	crooked
hunger	thirst	strong	weak
imitation	genuine	success	failure
immense	tiny,minute	sunny	cloudy
imprison	free	take	give
include	exclude	tall	short
increase	decrease	tame	wild
inhabited	uninhabited	teacher	pupil
inferior	superior	thick	thin

Antonyms - Verbs
Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
Accept	reject	Insert	extract
Agree	differ	Inhale	exhale
Affirm	deny	Include	exclude
Arrive	depart	Invest	divest
Allow	forbid	Lend	borrow
Advance	retreat	Lead	follow
Assemble	disperse	Laugh	weep
Begin	end	Offer	refuse
Conceal	reveal	Open	shut
Create	destroy	Omit	insert
Discharge	convict	Recognize	ignore
Enthrone	dethrone	Resist	submit
Enrich	impoverish	Rise	fall, set
Expose	conceal	Remember	forget
Gather	scatter	Smile	Frown
Go	come	Sleep	wake
Hide	seek	Sink	swim
Help	hinder	Teach	learn
Hurt	heal	Wax	wane

Antonyms - Adjectives
Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
Ancient	modern	Masculine	feminine
Active	passive	Material	spiritual
Attractive	repulsive	Mental	physcial
Barren	fertile	Natural	artifical
Beautiful	ugly	Offensive	defensive
Clean	dirty	Odd	even
Clever	Stupid	Public	private
Cheap	dear	Progressive	retrogade
Cheerful	gloomy	Religious	secular
Civilized	savage	Round	flat
Convex	Concave	Rough	smooth
Confident	Diffident	Rash	deliberate
Difficult	easy	Strict	lenient
Domestic	wild	Solid	hollow
Dense	rare	Simple	artful
Deficient	proficient	Singular	plural
Economical	extravagant	Slow	prompt
Explicit	implicit	Straight	crooked
Early	late	Stern	mild
Friendly	hostile	Superior	inferior
Faithful	treacherous	Sublime	ridiculous
Far	near	Temporal	spiritual
Full	empty	Temporary	permanent
Fat	thin	Transparent	opaque
Great	Small	Uniform	varied
Grave	cheerful	Vulgar	refined
General	particular	Vertical	horizontal
Guilty	innocent	Vigorous	feeble
Hot	cold	Voluntary	compulsory
Hard	soft	Wide	narrow
Important	trivial	Warm	cool
Intentional	accidental	Wise	foolish
Loud	soft	Wild	tame