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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 appear -‐ disappear, vanish approve -‐ disapprove arrive -‐ depart artificial -‐ natural ascend -‐ descend attic -‐ cellar attractive -‐ repulsive awake -‐ asleep 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 brave -‐ cowardly build -‐ destroy bold -‐ meek, timid borrow -‐ lend bound -‐ unbound, free boundless -‐ limited bright -‐ dim, dull brighten -‐ fade broad -‐ narrow C calm -‐ windy, troubled can -‐ cannot, can't capable -‐ incapable captive -‐ free careful -‐ careless cheap -‐ expensive cheerful -‐ sad, discouraged, dreary clear -‐ cloudy, opaque clever -‐ stupid clockwise -‐ counterclockwise close -‐ far, distant closed -‐ ajar, open clumsy -‐ graceful cold -‐ hot combine -‐ separate come -‐ go comfort -‐ discomfort common -‐ rare 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 dusk -‐ dawn E early -‐ late east -‐ west easy -‐ hard, difficult empty -‐ full encourage -‐ discourage end -‐ begin, start enter -‐ exit even -‐ odd expand -‐ contract export -‐ import exterior -‐ interior external -‐ internal F 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 forget -‐ remember found -‐ lost fresh -‐ stale frequent -‐ seldom friend -‐ enemy for -‐ against fortunate -‐ unfortunate full -‐ empty G 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 H 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 I 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 J
Q
qualified -‐ unqualified question -‐ answer quiet -‐ loud, noisy R raise -‐ lower rapid -‐ slow rare -‐ common regular -‐ irregular real -‐ fake rich -‐ poor right -‐ left, wrong right-‐side-‐up -‐ upside-‐down rough -‐ smooth rude -‐ courteous S 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 T take -‐ give tall -‐ short tame -‐ wild them -‐ us there -‐ here thick -‐ thin tight -‐ loose, slack tiny -‐ big, huge together -‐ apart top -‐ bottom tough -‐ easy, tender transparent -‐ opaque true -‐ false truth -‐ flasehood, lie, untruth U under -‐ over unfold -‐ fold unknown -‐ known unqualified -‐ qualified unsafe -‐ safe up -‐ down upside-‐down -‐ right-‐side-‐up upstairs -‐ downstairs us -‐ them useful -‐ useless V vacant -‐ occupied vanish -‐ appear vast -‐ tiny victory -‐ defeat virtue -‐ vice visible -‐ invisible voluntary -‐ compulsory W war -‐ peace wax -‐ wane weak -‐ strong white -‐ black wide -‐ narrow win -‐ lose wisdom -‐ folly, stupidity within -‐ outside wrong -‐ right
wet -‐ dry Y yes -‐ no yin -‐ yang young -‐ old Z zip -‐ unzip zenith -‐ nadir
