antonym

Other forms of antonym

plural

antonyms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about antonym

What does antonym mean?

antonym means "a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other".

How many syllables are in antonym?

antonym has 3 syllables: an-to-nym. The stress falls on "an".

What is another word for antonym?

Close synonyms include opposite word, opposite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of antonym?

The recorded antonyms are synonym.

Is antonym a common word?

antonym is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.