Common Opposites - Antonyms Vocabulary Word List

A absent - present abundant - scarce accept - decline, refuse accurate - inaccurate admit - deny advantage - disadvantage against - for agree - disagree alive - dead all - none, nothing ally - enemy always - never ancient - modern answer - question antonym - synonym apart - together B backward - forward bad - good beautiful - ugly before - after begin - end below - above bent - straight best - worst better - worse, worst big - little, small black - white blame - praise bless - curse bitter - sweet borrow - lend bottom - top boy - girl C calm - windy, troubled clockwise - counterclockwise can - cannot, can't close - far, distant capable - incapable closed - ajar, open captive - free clumsy - graceful careful - careless cold - hot cheap - expensive combine - separate cheerful - sad, discouraged, dreary come - go clear - cloudy, opaque comfort - discomfort clever - stupid common - rare

More on Antonyms More Word Banks appear - disappear, vanish approve - disapprove arrive - depart artificial - natural ascend - descend attic - cellar attractive - repulsive awake - asleep

brave - cowardly build - destroy bold - meek, timid borrow - lend bound - unbound, free boundless - limited bright - dim, dull brighten - fade broad - narrow

conceal - reveal contract - expand cool - warm correct - incorrect, wrong courage - cowardice create - destroy crooked - straight cruel - kind compulsory - voluntary courteous - discourteous, rude

D dangerous - safe dark - light day - night daytime - nighttime dead - alive decline - accept, increase deep - shallow definite - indefinite demand - supply despair - hope dim - bright disappear - appear diseased - healthy down - up downwards - upwards dreary - cheerful dry - moist, wet dull - bright, shiny

decrease - increase

discourage - encourage E

dusk - dawn

early - late east - west easy - hard, difficult empty - full

encourage - discourage end - begin, start enter - exit even - odd F

expand - contract export - import exterior - interior external - internal

fade - brighten fail - succeed false - true famous - unknown far - near fast - slow fat - thin feeble - strong, powerful

few - many find - lose first - last float - sink foolish - wise fore - aft free - bound, captive fold - unfold G

forget - remember found - lost fresh - stale frequent - seldom friend - enemy for - against fortunate - unfortunate full - empty

generous - stingy gentle - rough get - give giant - tiny, small, dwarf girl - boy

give - receive, take glad - sad, sorry gloomy - cheerful go - stop good - bad, evil

grant - refuse great - tiny, small, unimportant grow - shrink guest - host guilty - innocent

happy - sad hard - easy hard - soft harmful - harmless harsh - mild hate - love haves - have-nots

healthy - diseased, ill, sick heaven - hell heavy - light help - hinder here - there hero - coward high - low !

hill - valley hinder - help honest - dishonest horizontal - vertical hot - cold humble - proud

ill - healthy, well immense - tiny, small important - trivial in - out include - exclude increase - decrease

inferior - superior inhale - exhale inner - outer inside - outside intelligent - stupid, unintelligent

interesting - boring interior - exterior interesting - dull, uninteresting internal - external intentional - accidental

" join - separate junior - senior just - unjust # knowledge - ignorance L landlord - tenant large - small last - first laugh - cry lawful - unlawful, illegal lazy - industrious leader - follower left - right lend -borrow lengthen - shorten lenient - strict left - right less - more light - dark, heavy like - dislike, hate likely - unlikely limited - boundless little - big M mad - happy, sane major - minor many - few mature - immature maximum - minimum melt - freeze merry - sad messy - neat minor - major minority - majority miser - spendthrift misunderstand - understand more - less long - short loose - tight lose - find loss - win loud - quiet love - hate low - high loyal - disloyal known - unknown justice - injustice

$ nadir - zenith narrow - wide near - far, distant neat - messy, untidy never - always new - old night - day nighttime - daytime O obedient - disobedient odd - even offer - refuse old - young old - new on - off open - closed, shut opposite- same, similar % past - present patient - impatient peace - war poetry - prose polite - rude, impolite possible - impossible pretty - ugly private - public prudent - imprudent optimist - pessimist out - in outer - inner over - under no - yes noisy - quiet none - some north - south

permanent - temporary plentiful - scarce plural - singular

poverty - wealth, riches powerful - weak

pure - impure, contaminated push - pull

& qualified - unqualified question - answer ' raise - lower rapid - slow rare - common regular - irregular real - fake rich - poor right - left, wrong right-side-up - upside-down rough - smooth rude - courteous quiet - loud, noisy

( safe - unsafe same - opposite satisfactory - unsatisfactory secure - insecure scatter - collect separate - join, together serious - trivial second-hand - new shallow - deep shrink - grow sick - healthy, ill simple - complex, hard singular - plural sink - float slim - fat, thick slow - fast sober - drunk soft - hard some - none sorrow - joy sour - sweet sow -reap straight - crooked start - finish stop - go strict - lenient strong - weak success - failure sunny - cloudy synonym - antonym sweet - sour

) take - give tall - short tame - wild them - us there - here thick - thin tight - loose, slack tiny - big, huge together - apart top - bottom * under - over unfold - fold unknown - known unqualified - qualified unsafe - safe up - down upside-down - right-side-up V vacant - occupied victory - defeat visible - invisible upstairs - downstairs us - them useful - useless tough - easy, tender transparent - opaque true - false truth - flasehood, lie, untruth

vanish - appear vast - tiny

virtue - vice

voluntary - compulsory

W war - peace wax - wane weak - strong wet - dry white - black wide - narrow win - lose wisdom - folly, stupidity within - outside wrong - right

+ yes - no yin - yang , zip - unzip More Word Lists zenith - nadir young - old

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