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100 Common English Antonyms

Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings, for example ‘yes’ and ‘no’. We often think of adjectives as
words that have opposites, but many other kinds of words also have antonyms, e.g. ‘this’ and ‘that’.

‘Antonym’ comes from the Greek words anti (against) + ónoma (name).

Adjectives: Nouns: Adverbs: Verbs:

alive dead arrival departure above below accept refuse

beautiful ugly attack defence ahead behind add subtract

best worst attic cellar always never agree disagree

black white birth death backward forward are aren’t

cheap expensive child adult before after arrive leave

clean dirty day night carefully carelessly build destroy

easy difficult employee employer early late buy sell

empty full error correction east west can cannot

funny serious failure success everybody nobody do don’t

good bad floor ceiling everywhere nowhere get on get off

happy sad friend enemy fast slow give get

hot cold girl boy first last go come

light dark health illness here there have haven’t

nice nasty hero villain home abroad laugh cry

normal weird man woman inside outside live die

polite rude morning evening long short open close

public private praise insult more less push pull

quiet loud question answer near far put on take off

rich poor sea land north south read write

right wrong summer winter now then save spend

same different sun moon often rarely sit stand

soft hard sunrise sunset on off start finish

true false victory defeat over under stop go

warm cool winner loser up down will won’t

young old work rest upstairs downstairs work play

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