ANTONYMOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antonymous mean? 

• ANTONYMOUS (adjective)
  The adjective ANTONYMOUS has 1 sense:

1. of words: having opposite meanings

  Familiarity information: ANTONYMOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTONYMOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of words: having opposite meanings

Similar:

complementary (of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other)

contradictory (of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false)

contrary (of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false)

contrastive; incompatible (of words so related that one contrasts with the other)

converse (of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other)

Antonym:

synonymous ((of words) meaning the same or nearly the same)

Derivation:

antonym (a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other)