![]() ![]() One advantage of studying relational and graded antonyms is that you expand your vocabulary, adding tools to your writer’s toolbox. empty/full lie at opposite ends of either literal capacity (like a storage container) or figurative language (like an empty life, half-lived life, full life).dull/interesting has companion antonyms along the attention span spectrum like boring/fascinating, tiresome/enthralling.hot/cold exist as extremes of the temperature spectrum, including warm/cool, toasty/frosty.Words that have a sense of relation are said to have antonymy.Ī third level, graded or gradable antonyms, exist along a sliding scale of meanings: Other antonym pairs are relational antonyms, in which one word implies its opposite related word, even if it is not mentioned: Many are just binary pairs or complementary antonyms, like these: As literary devices, antonyms are one of the simplest to find and use.Īntonyms exist on three levels of thought. The word antonym comes from Greek and means “against a name.” There are three types of antonyms, and many words can have multiple antonyms, depending on the meaning of the original word. Antonyms are words with opposite meanings. ![]()
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