Antonyms Vocabulary Word List

Opposites (or Antonyms)

Lists of opposites arranged in alphabetical order

opposites

Here is a list of opposites arranged in alphabetical order.

NOTE: this list of opposites is of course by no means an extensive one. More opposites can be added

Words	Opposites		Words	Opposites		Words	Opposites
L	outside	inside	south	north
lack	abundance, plenty	outskirts	center	special	general, ordinary
lady	gentleman	over	under	spring	autumn
to land	to take off	P	to stand	to sit
land	water	parents	children	to start	to stop
large	small	part	whole	start	finish, end, stop
last	first	partial	total	to stop	to start, to go
late	early	particular	general	to stand	to lie
to laugh	to cry	to pass	to fail	strange	normal
lazy	active, busy	past	future, present	strict	tolerant, indulgent
to lead	to follow	peace	war	strong	weak
to learn	to teach	to permit	to forbid	student	teacher
to leave	to arrive, to enter	to plant	to harvest	stupid	clever, intelligent
left	right	plenty	lack	suburb	center
to lend	to borrow	pleasant	awful	to succeed	to fail
less	more	polite	rude, impolite	success	failure
to let	to forbid	poor	rich, wealthy	to subtract	to add
to lie	to stand	poverty	wealth	sugar	salt
life	death	powerful	weak	summer	winter
light	dark, heavy	presence	absence	sun	moon
to like	to hate	present	past, future	sunny	cloudy, rainy
liquid	solid	pretty	ugly	supporter	opponent
little	big, large	private	public	to suspect	to trust
little	much	probably	certainly	sweet	bitter, sour
to live	to die	professional	amateur	synonym	antonym
long	short	to protect	to attack	T
to lose	to find, to win	protection	attack	to take	to give
loser	winner	public	private	to take off	to land
loud	quiet	to pull	to push	tall	small, short
to love	to hate	pupil	teacher	to teach	to learn
lovely	terrible	to push	to pull	teacher	pupil, student
low	high	Q	thankful	thankless
to lower	to raise	question	answer	terrible	lovely
M	quick	slow	there	here
major	minor	quiet	loud, noisy	then	now
male	female	R	thin	thick, fat
man	woman	to raise	to lower	to throw	to catch
many	few, some	rainy	sunny	tight	loose
marriage	divorce	rear	front	tiny	huge
married	divorced, single	to receive	to send	together	apart
to marry	to divorce	to reduce	to increase	tomorrow	yesterday
master	servant	to refuse	to agree, to accept	top	bottom
maximum	minimum	regret	satisfaction	total	partial
mean	generous	to remember	to forget	town	village
to melt	to freeze	to repair	to damage	tragedy	comedy
men	women	to reply	to ask	trivial	important
to mend	to break	reply	question	true	false
mess	order	republic	dictatorship, monarchy	to trust	to suspect
midnight	noon	to rest	to work	U
minimum	maximum	rich	poor	ugliness	beauty
minor	major	right	left, wrong	ugly	beautiful, handsome, pretty
to miss	to hit, to catch	to rise	to sink	under	over
moderate	extreme	rough	gentle, smooth, soft	to unite	to divide, to separate
modern	ancient, old	rude	polite	unity	division
monarchy	republic	rural	urban	up	down
moon	sun	S	upstairs	downstairs
more	less	sad	happy	urban	rural
morning	evening	sadness	happiness	urgent	leisurely
mountain	valley	safe	dangerous	useless	useful
much	little	safety	danger	V
N	same, similar	different	vacant	occupied
narrow	broad, wide	satisfaction	dissatisfaction	valley	mountain
nasty	nice, pleasant	to satisfy	to dissatisfy	vertical	horizontal
native	foreigner, stranger	to save	to spend, to waste	victory	defeat
natural	artificial	to scream	to whisper	village	town
near	distant, far	security	danger	violent	gentle
negative	affirmative	seldom	often	visitor	host
nephew	niece	to sell	to buy	voluntary	compulsory
never	always	to send	to receive	vowel	consonant
new	ancient, old	to sit	to stand	W
nice	awful, nasty	senior	junior	war	peace
niece	nephew	to separate	to connect, to unite	warm	cool
night	day	serious	funny	to waste	to save
no	yes	servant	master	water	land
nobody	everybody	to set free	to arrest	weak	powerful, strong
noisy	quiet, silent	shallow	deep	wealth	poverty
noon	midnight	sharp	blunt	wealthy	poor
none of	all of	shelter	exposure	wedding	divorce
normal	strange	short	long, tall	well	ill
north	south	to shout	to whisper	west	east
not yet	already	to shut	to open	wet	dry
nothing	everything	sick	healthy	to whisper	to scream, to shout
to notice	to ignore	silent	noisy	white	black
now	then	silly, stupid	intelligent	whole	part
O	simple	complicated	wide	narrow
occasionally	frequently	to sink	to rise	wife	husband
occupied	vacant	single	married	to win	to lose
odd	even	sister	brother	winner	loser
off	on	slim	fat	winter	summer
often	seldom, sometimes	slow	fast, quick	to work	to rest
old	modern, new, young	small	big, large, tall	woman	man
on	off	smooth	rough	women	men
to open	to close, to shut	soft	hard, rough	worse	better
open	closed, shut	solid	liquid	worst	best
opponent	supporter	somber	colorful, cheerful	wrong	correct, right
order	mess	some	many	Y
ordinary	special	son	daughter	yes	no
other	same	soul	body	yesterday	tomorrow
out	in	sour	sweet	young	old

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