VOCABULARY

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Opposites (Antonyms)

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Lists of opposites arranged in alphabetical order

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
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

Related material

List of adjectives.
List of opposites (adjectives)
List of Synonyms
Exercise on opposites

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