indirect antonym

1. 1.

   antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry')

   Broaderantonym

Questions about indirect antonym

What does indirect antonym mean?

indirect antonym means "antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry')".

Is indirect antonym a common word?

indirect 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.