Opposites or Antonyms

                                                      

Lists of Opposites Arranged in Alphabetical Order

Words	Opposites		Words	Opposites		Words	Opposites
A			cold (adj)	hot		to find	to lose
about	exactly		cold (noun)	heat		to finish	to begin
above	below		to come	to go		finish	start
absence	presence		comedy	drama, tragedy		first	final, last
abundance	lack		complicated	simple		to fix	to break
to accept	to refuse		compliment	insult		flat	hilly
accidental	intentional		compulsory	voluntary		floor	ceiling
active	lazy		to connect	to separate		to follow	to lead
to add	to subtract		consonant	vowel		to forbid	to allow, to let, to permit
to admit	to deny		constant	changeable		for	against
adult	child		construction	destruction		foreground	background
advanced	elementary		to continue	to interrupt		foreign	domestic
affirmative	negative		cool	warm		foreigner	native
afraid	brave		correct	false, wrong		to forget	to remember
after	before		courage	fear		to form	to destroy
against	for		courageous	cowardly		fortune	bad luck
alike	different		cowardly	brave, courageous		forward	backward
alive	dead		to create	to destroy		to free	to arrest
all	none		cruel	human, kind humane		to freeze	to melt
always	never		to cry	to whisper		frequently	occasionally
ancient	modern		to cry	to laugh		friend	enemy
to agree	to refuse, to argue		curly	straight		front	rear
to allow	to forbid		D			in front of	back, behind
already	not yet		to damage	to repair		full	empty
always	never		danger	security, safety		funny	serious
amateur	professional		dangerous	safe		future	past, present
to amuse	to bore		dark	light		G
angel	devil		daughter	son		general	particular, special
animal	human		dawn	dusk		generous	mean
to annoy	to satisfy		day	night		gentle	violent, rough, strict
to answer	to ask		deep	shallow		gentleman	lady
answer	question		defeat	victory		girl	boy
antonym	synonym		delicious	awful		to give	to take
apart	together		to deny	to admit		to go	to come, to stop
approximately	exactly		to depart	to arrive		good	bad
to argue	to agree		departure	arrival		godfather	godmother
to arrest	to free, to set free		desperate	hopeful		grown-up	child
arrival	departure		to destroy	to build, to create, to form		guest	host
to arrive	to depart, to leave		destruction	construction		guilty	innocent
artificial	natural		devil	angel		H
to ask	to answer		dictatorship	democracy		happiness	sadness
asleep	awake		to die	to live		happy	sad
to attack	to defend		different	alike, equal, the same		handsome	ugly
attack	defense, protection		difficult	easy		hard	easy, soft
attic	cellar		dirty	clean		to harvest	to plant
autumn	spring		disease	health		to hate	to enjoy, to like, to love
awake	asleep		distant	near		health	disease, illness
awful	delicious, nice, pleasant		to divide	to unite		healthy	ill, sick
B			division	unity		heat	cold
back	in front of		to divorce	to marry		heaven	hell
background	foreground		divorce	marriage, wedding		heavy	light
backward	forward		divorced	married		hell	heaven
bad	good		domestic	foreign		here	there
bad luck	fortune, good luck		down	up		high	deep
beauty	ugliness		downstairs	upstairs		high	low
before	after		drama	comedy		hilly	flat
to begin	to end, to finish		dry	humid, wet		to hit	to miss
beginning	end, ending		dull	interesting		hopeful	desperate, hopeless
behind	in front of		dusk	dawn		hopeless	hopeful
below	above		E			horizontal	vertical
best	worst		early	late		host	guest, visitor
better	worse		east	west		hot	cold
beautiful	ugly		easy	difficult, hard		huge	tiny
big	small	elementary	advanced	human	animal
birth	death	to emigrate	to immigrate	humane	cruel
bitter	sweet	emigration	immigration	humid	dry
black	white	empty	full	hungry	thirsty
blunt	sharp	to end	to begin	husband	wife
body	soul	end	beginning	I
to bore	to amuse, to be interested in	ending	beginning	in front of	back, behind
boring	exciting, interesting	enemy	friend	to ignore	to notice
to borrow	to lend	to enjoy	to hate	ill	healthy, well
bottom	top	to enter	to leave	to immigrate	to emigrate
boy	girl	entrance	exit	immigration	emigration
brave	cowardly, afraid	equal	different	import	export
to break	to mend, to fix	even	odd	in	out
broad	narrow	evening	morning	to include	to exclude
brother	sister	everybody	nobody	to increase	to reduce
to build	to destroy	everything	nothing	innocent	guilty
busy	lazy	exactly	approximately	inside	outside
to buy	to sell	excited	calm	insult	compliment
C		exciting	boring	intelligent	silly, stupid
calm	excited	to exclude	to include	intentional	accidental
careful	careless	exit	entrance	interested	bored
careless	careful	expensive	cheap	interesting	boring, dull
to catch	to miss, to throw	export	import	to interrupt	to continue
ceiling	floor	exposure	shelter	J
cellar	attic	extreme	moderate	to jeopardize	to secure
center	outskirts, suburb	F		jolly	unhappy
certainly	probably	to fail	to succeed, to pass	junior	senior
changeable	constant	failure	success	K
cheap	expensive	false	correct, true	keen	uninterested
child	adult, grown-up	far	near	kind	cruel, nasty
children	parents	fast	slow
clean	dirty	fat	slim, thin
clever	stupid	fear	courage
to close	to open	female	male
closed	open	few	many
cloudy	clear, sunny, bright	final	first

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