Antonyms opposites

words that are opposite

Alphabetical			Reverse Alphabetical
absent	present		acquit	convict
abundance	scarcity		adulterated	pure
accelerate	retard		adversity	prosperity
accept	reject, refuse		age	youth
active	passive		agitated	motionless
acute	obtuse		alive	dead
adult	child		ancient	modern
advance	retreat, retire		answer	question
affirmative	negative		antagonist	colleague
agree	contradict		antidote	poison
all	none		artificial	natural
ally	enemy		awake	asleep
amateur	professional		back	front
analysis	synthesis		bad	good
ancestor	progeny		base	apex
ancestry	posterity		base	heroic
antecedent	consequent		base	summit
apex	base		beautiful	ugly
appear	vanish		behind	before
appoint	dismiss		blame	praise
apprehend	release		bold	bashful
arrival	departure		borrow	lend
arrive	depart		bottom	top
ascend	descend		captivity	freedom
asleep	awake		centripetal	centrifugal
assemble	disperse		chaos	order
assent	dissent		child	adult
attack	defend		chubby, stout	slim
attract	distract		clear	cloudy
barren	fruitful		come	go
bashful	bold		command	obey
before	behind		common	proper
begin	end, cease		complex	simple
benediction	malediction		concave	convex
benevolent	malevolent		consecutive	concurrent
better	worse		consequent	antecedent
big	small		contract	expand
black	white		contradict	agree
bless	curse		cooked	raw
blessing	disaster		counterfeit	genuine
bow	stern		cowardice	bravery
bravery	cowardice		cowardice	valour
bright	dull		creditor	debtor
busy	idle		crooked	straight
buy	sell		curse	bless
caution	recklessness		dear, expensive	cheap
celestial	terrestrial		death	life
centrifugal	centripetal		debtor	creditor
certain	doubt		decrease	increase
cheap	dear, expensive		defeat	victory
clean	dirty		defend	attack
cloudy	clear		defendant	complainant
coarse	fine		deficit	surplus
cold	hot		depart	arrive
colleague	antagonist		departure	arrival
common	rare		depth	height
complainant	defendant		descend	ascend
compulsory	optional		despair	hope
compulsory	voluntary		die	live
conceal	reveal		difficult, hard	easy
concurrent	consecutive		diligent	indolent
condemn	exonerate		dirty	clean
confine	release		disagreeable	pleasant
confusion	orderliness		disaster	blessing
consent	dissent		discord	harmony
convex	concave		dislike	enjoy
convict	acquit		dismiss	appoint
creditor	debtor		dismiss	employ
daily	nightly		dismiss	engage
danger	safety		disperse	assemble
dawn	dusk		dissent	assent
day	night		dissent	consent
dead	alive		distract	attract
debtor	creditor		divide	multiply
deep	shallow		doubt	certain
dry	wet		drone	worker
dynamic	static		dull	bright
eager	reluctant		dusk	dawn
early	late		dwarf	giant
earth	sea		ebb	flow
east	west		end, cease	begin
easy	difficult, hard		enemy	ally
economy	extravagance		enemy, foe	friend
emigrant	immigrant		epilogue	prologue
employ	dismiss		error	truth
engage	dismiss		evening	morning
enjoy	dislike		example	precept
entrance	exit		exclude	include
everywhere	nowhere		exhale	inhale
exact	inaccurate		exit	entrance
excess	shortage		exonerate	condemn
expand	contract		exotic	indigenous
extravagance	thrift		exterior	interior
familiar	strange		extravagance	economy
fat	thin, lean		failure	success
find	lose		fall, sink	rise
first	last		false	true
flow	ebb		far, distant	near
force, compel	persuade		feeble	powerful
foreign	native		feeble, delicate	robust
former	latter		few	many
freedom	captivity		final	initial
fresh	stale		fine	coarse
friend	enemy, foe		finish	start
front	back		flexible	rigid
future	past		follow	lead
gaiety	melancholy		folly	wisdom
gay	grave		foolish, stupid	smart, clever
generous	mean, selfish		forget	remember
Gentile	Jew		friendly	hostile
genuine	counterfeit		frown	smile
giant	dwarf		fruitful	barren
give	take		grave	gay
go	come		greatest	least
good	bad		guess	think
graceful	hideous		hate, hatred	love
guilty	innocent		Heaven	hell
happy	sad		heavy, darkness	light
hard	soft		heterodox	orthodox
harmony	discord		hideous	graceful
health	sickness, disease		hinder	help
height	depth		hot	cold
hell	Heaven		humble	proud
help	hinder		idle	busy
here	there		ignorance	knowledge
heroic	base		illegal	lawful
hide	show		imaginary	real
high	low		immigrant	emigrant
higher	lower		inaccurate	exact
hill	valley		indigent	prosperous
hit	miss		indiscretion	prudence
hope	despair		industrious	lazy
hostile	friendly		inferior	superior
incessantly	rarely		innocent	guilty
include	exclude		insincere	ingenuous
increase	decrease		intoxicated	sober
indigenous	exotic		intractible	submissive
indolent	diligent		Jew	Gentile
industry	sloth		last	first
ingenuous	insincere		late	early
inhale	exhale		latter	former
initial	final		laugh	weep
inner	outer		learn	teach
inside	outside		left	right
interior	exterior		limited	spacious
join, unite	separate		longitude	latitude
joy	sorrow, grief		longitudinal	transverse
junior	senior		lose	find
knowledge	ignorance		lose	win
land	water		loss	profit, gain
latitude	longitude		low	high
lawful	illegal		lower	higher
lazy	industrious		lower	upper
lead	follow		malediction	benediction
least	greatest		malevolent	benevolent
lend	borrow		maximum	minimum
level	steep		mean, selfish	generous
liberty	slavery		melancholy	gaiety
life	death		minority	majority
light	heavy, darkness		miss	hit
liquid	solid		mourn, grieve	rejoice
liquid	solid		moving	stationary
live	die		narrow	wide
long	short		native	foreign
loud	soft		negative	affirmative
love	hate, hatred		new	old
lovely	repulsive		night	day
majority	minority		nightly	daily
many	few		noisy	quiet
master	servant		none	all
minimum	maximum		nowhere	everywhere
miser	spendthrift		obtuse	acute
modern	ancient		occidental	oriental
monogamy	polygamy		occupied	vacant
monotony	variety		old	young
morning	evening		optional	compulsory
motionless	agitated		orderliness	confusion
mountain	plain		outer	inner
multiply	divide		outside	inside
natural	artificial		overdue	premature
near	far, distant		pain	pleasure
negative	positive		passenger	pedestrian
noise	silence		passive	active
north	south		past	future
novice	veteran		peaceful	pugnacious
numerous	sparse		periodically	regularly
obey	command		persuade	force, compel
obligatory	voluntary		pessimist	optimist
often	seldom		plain	mountain
old	new		plural	singular
open	shut, close		polygamy	monogamy
optimist	pessimist		populated	sparse
order	chaos		populous	solitary
oriental	occidental		positive	negative
orthodox	heterodox		posterity	ancestry
pale	ruddy		practice	theory
pardon	punish		present	absent
peace	war		private	public
pedestrian	passenger		profane	sacred
permanent	temporary		professional	amateur
pleasant	disagreeable		progeny	ancestor
pleasure	pain		punish	pardon
poison	antidote		punishment	reward
polite	saucy		rare	common
polite	rude		rarely	incessantly
poor	rich		recklessness	caution
poverty	riches		reject, refuse	accept
powerful	feeble		release	apprehend
praise	blame		release	confine
precept	example		reluctant	eager
predecessor	successor		repulsive	lovely
premature	overdue		rest	work
profit, gain	loss		retard	accelerate
prolific	sterile		retreat, retire	advance
prologue	epilogue		retrospective	prospective
proper	common		reveal	conceal
prose	verse		rich	poor
prospective	retrospective		riches	poverty
prosperity	adversity		ruddy	pale
prosperous	indigent		rude	polite
proud	humble		sad	happy
prudence	indiscretion		safety	danger
public	private		saucy	polite
pugnacious	peaceful		scarcity	abundance
pure	adulterated		sea	earth
question	answer		seldom	often
quick	slow		sell	buy
quiet	noisy		senior	junior
raw	cooked		separate	join, unite
real	imaginary		servant	master
regularly	periodically		shallow	deep
rejoice	mourn, grieve		short	long
remember	forget		shortage	excess
reward	punishment		show	hide
right	wrong		shut, close	open
right	left		sickness, disease	health
rigid	flexible		silence	noise
rise	fall, sink		sinner	saint
robust	feeble, delicate		slavery	liberty
rough	smooth		sloth	industry
rural	urban		slow	quick
sacred	profane		small	big
saint	sinner		smooth	rough
simple	complex		soft	hard
singular	plural		soft	loud
slender	stout		solid	liquid
slim	chubby, stout		solid	liquid
smart, clever	foolish, stupid		sorrow, grief	joy
smile	frown		sour, acid, bitter	sweet
sober	intoxicated		south	north
solitary	populous		sparse	numerous
spacious	limited		spendthrift	miser
sparse	populated		stale	fresh
start	finish		static	dynamic
stationary	moving		steep	level
straight	crooked		sterile	prolific
submissive	intractible		stern	bow
success	failure		stout	slender
summer	winter		strange	familiar
summit	base		strong	weak
superior	inferior		successor	predecessor
surplus	deficit		succumb	survive
survive	succumb		synthesis	analysis
sweet	sour, acid, bitter		take	give
teach	learn		tame	wild
theory	practice		temporary	permanent
these	those		terrestrial	celestial
think	guess		that	this
this	that		there	here
top	bottom		thin, lean	fat
transparent	translucent, opaque		those	these
transverse	longitudinal		thrift	extravagance
truth	error		translucent, opaque	transparent
true	false		unpardonable	venial
ugly	beautiful		urban	rural
upper	lower		valley	hill
vacant	occupied		vanish	appear
valour	cowardice		vanquished	victor
venial	unpardonable		variety	monotony
victor	vanquished		verse	prose
victory	defeat		veteran	novice
virtue	vice		vice	virtue
wax	wane		voluntary	compulsory
weak	strong		voluntary	obligatory
weep	laugh		wane	wax
wide	narrow		war	peace
wild	tame		water	land
win	lose		west	east
wisdom	folly		wet	dry
within	without		white	black
work	rest		winter	summer
worker	drone		without	within
young	old		worse	better
youth	age		wrong	right

 

 

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