Meaning | Of words: having opposite meanings. |
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Narrower | complementary | Of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other |
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contradictory | Of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false |
contrary | Of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false |
contrastive, incompatible | Of words so related that one contrasts with the other |
converse | Of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other |
Opposite | synonymous | (of words) meaning / meaning the same or nearly the same |
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Spanish | antónimo |
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Catalan | antònim |
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Nouns | antonym | a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other |
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