adjective
- having opposite meanings; being antonyms
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The words ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ are antonymous.
- Students learned to identify antonymous pairs in their vocabulary exercise.
- The antonymous relationship between ‘love’ and ‘hate’ is clear.
- These antonymous terms help illustrate the concept of opposition.
- The dictionary listed several antonymous words for each entry.