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Derivational antonyms

1. Amity – enmity
2. Active – inactive
3. Alert – clueless
4. Artless – artful
5. Careful – careless
6. Courage – cowardness
7. Faithful – faithless
8. Faulty – faultless
9. Painful – painless

Absolute antonyms
1. Alive – dead;
2. Bad – good
3. Big – small
4. Begin – end
5. Brave – coward
6. Busy – free
7. Continue – stop
8. Descend – ascend
9. Discord – harmony
10. Enemy – friend
11. Expensive – cheap
12. Final – start
13. Free – captured
14. Frequent – rare
15. Gay – sad
16. Hostile – friendly
17. Kind – evil
18. Low – high
19. Preceding – succeeding
20. Progressive – digressive
21. Revolutionary – counter-revolutionary
22. Rough – light
23. Safety – danger
24. Slow – fast
25. Temporary – permanent
26. Timidity – audacity
27. Uniformity – variation
28. Wet – dry
29. White – black
30. Wrong – right
Mixed antonyms
1. Appearance – disappearance
2. Attentive – inattentive
3. Aware – unaware
4. Comfortable – uncomfortable
5. Competent – incompetent
6. Consistent – inconsistent
7. Convenient – inconvenient
8. Correct – incorrect
9. Distinct – indistinct
10. Employed – unemployed
11. Legal – illegal
12. Misfortune – fortune
13. Normal – abnormal
14. Polite – impolite
15. Post-war – pre-war
16. Rational – irrational
17. Sane – insane
18. Sufficient – insufficient
19. Underestimate – overestimate

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