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opposite word in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
    "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"
    antonym  opposite word  opposite 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University



  

'opposite word' English examples of use

  • A new word processor was introduced
  • An example sentence would show what this word means
  • And I on the opposite shore will be , ready to ride and spread the alarm - Longfellow
  • Can the child sound out this complicated word?
  • Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word
  • He gave her his word
  • He spelled the word wrong in this letter
  • I am not using the word pejoratively
  • I could not get a word in edgewise
  • In Farsi , you accent the last syllable of each word
  • Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper - -Ted Nelson
  • She hung on his every word
  • She mouthed a swear word
  • The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word
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