Synonym & Antonym
Synonyms
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Amazing: astounding,
surprising, stunning |
Fertile, fruitful, abundant,
productive |
Polite: courteous, cordial,
gracious |
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Annihilation: destruction,
carnage, extinction |
Gargantuan: colossal,
mammoth, tremendous |
Portion: piece, part, segment |
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Benefit: profit, revenue,
yield |
Hungry: empty, ravenous,
starved |
Risky: dangerous, perilous,
treacherous |
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Brave: courageous, valiant,
heroic |
Injured: damaged, wounded,
harmed |
Sleepy: drowsy, listless,
sluggish |
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Cohesive: united, connected,
close-knit |
Intelligent: brilliant,
clever, smart |
Senseless: absurd, illogical,
unreasonable |
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Cunning: keen, sharp, slick |
Kindle: ignite, inflame, burn |
Tumultuous: hectic, raucous,
turbulent |
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Destitute: poor, bankrupt,
impoverished |
Loyal: faithful, ardent,
devoted |
Vacant: empty, deserted,
uninhabited |
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Deterioration: pollution,
defilement, adulteration |
Old: elderly, aged, senior |
Veracity: authenticity,
credibility, truthfulness |
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Enormous: huge, gigantic,
massive |
Organization: association,
institution, management |
Wet: damp, moist, soggy |
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Feisty: excitable, fiery,
lively |
Partner: associate,
colleague, companion |
Young: budding,
fledgling,tenderfoot |
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Afraid, scared, frightened ·
Automobile, car, vehicle ·
Big, large, huge ·
Blank, empty, hollow ·
Bunny, rabbit, hare ·
Cap, hat ·
Center, middle, inside ·
Couch, sofa, divan ·
Evil, bad, wicked ·
Famous, well-known ·
Father, dad, daddy ·
Funny, silly, playful, crazy ·
Garbage, trash, junk, waste |
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Gloomy, sad, unhappy ·
Happy, glad, joyful, cheerful ·
Hide, cover ·
House, home ·
Ill, sick, unwell ·
Idea, thought ·
Jog, run ·
Listen, hear ·
Little, small, tiny ·
Look, see, glance, stare ·
Mad, angry, furious ·
Mother, mom, mommy ·
Neat, tidy, clean ·
Present, gift, reward, award |
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Quick, fast, swift ·
Quiet, calm ·
Rest, relax ·
Rock, stone ·
Rug, carpet, mat ·
Sack, bag, backpack ·
Sniff, smell, inhale ·
Strange, odd, weird ·
Tall, high, big ·
True, right, correct ·
Under, below, beneath ·
Woman, lady, female ·
Yell, shout, scream |
Antonyms
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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 dangerous - safe dark - light day - night daytime - nighttime dead - alive decline - accept, increase decrease - increase deep - shallow definite - indefinite demand - supply despair - hope dim - bright disappear - appear discourage - encourage diseased - healthy down - up downwards - upwards dreary - cheerful dry - moist, wet dull - bright, shiny dusk - dawn 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 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 nadir - zenith narrow - wide near - far, distant neat - messy, untidy never - always new - old night - day nighttime - daytime no - yes noisy - quiet none - some north - south qualified - unqualified question - answer quiet - loud, noisy safe - unsafe same - opposite satisfactory - unsatisfactory scatter - collect second-hand - new secure - insecure separate - join, together serious - trivial 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 start - finish stop - go straight - crooked strict - lenient strong - weak
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backward - forward bad - good beautiful - ugly before - after begin - end below - above bent - straight best - worst better - worse, worst big - little, small bitter - sweet black - white blame - praise bless - curse bold - meek, timid borrow - lend bottom - top bound - unbound, free boundless - limited boy - girl brave - cowardly bright - dim, dull brighten - fade broad - narrow build - destroy 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 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 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 intentional - accidental interesting - boring interesting - dull, uninteresting interior - exterior internal - external obedient - disobedient odd - even offer - refuse old - new old - young on - off open - closed, shut opposite- same, similar optimist - pessimist out - in outer - inner over - under past - present patient - impatient peace - war permanent - temporary plentiful - scarce plural - singular poetry - prose polite - rude, impolite possible - impossible poverty - wealth, riches powerful - weak pretty - ugly private - public prudent - imprudent pure - impure, contaminated push - pull under - over unfold - fold unknown - known unqualified - qualified unsafe - safe up - down upside-down - right-side-up upstairs - downstairs us - them useful - useless vacant - occupied vanish - appear vast - tiny victory - defeat virtue - vice visible - invisible voluntary - compulsory yes - no yin - yang young - old zenith - nadir zip - unzip sweet - sour synonym - antonym
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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 compulsory - voluntary conceal - reveal contract - expand cool - warm correct - incorrect, wrong courage - cowardice courteous - discourteous, rude create - destroy crooked - straight cruel - kind 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 fold - unfold foolish - wise for - against fore - aft forget - remember fortunate - unfortunate found - lost free - bound, captive frequent - seldom fresh - stale friend - enemy full - empty join - separate junior - senior just - unjust justice - injustice knowledge - ignorance known - unknown landlord - tenant large - small last - first laugh - cry lawful - unlawful, illegal lazy - industrious leader - follower left - right lend -borrow lengthen - shorten lenient - strict less - more light - dark, heavy like - dislike, hate likely - unlikely limited - boundless little - big long - short loose - tight lose - find loss - win loud - quiet love - hate low - high loyal - disloyal raise - lower rapid - slow rare - common real - fake regular - irregular rich - poor right - left, wrong right-side-up - upside-down rough - smooth rude - courteous 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 - falsehood, lie, untruth war - peace wax - wane weak - strong wet - dry white - black wide - narrow win - lose wisdom - folly, stupidity within - outside wrong - right success - failure sunny - cloudy |
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Achieve - Fail |
Giant - Dwarf |
Random - Specific |
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Afraid - Confident |
Gloomy - Cheerful |
Rigid - Flexible |
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Ancient - Modern |
Individual - Group |
Shame - Honor |
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Arrive - Depart |
Innocent - Guilty |
Simple - Complicated |
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Arrogant - Humble |
Knowledge - Ignorance |
Single - Married |
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Attack - Defend |
Liquid - Solid |
Sunny - Cloudy |
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Blunt - Sharp |
Marvelous - Terrible |
Timid - Bold |
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Brave - Cowardly |
Noisy - Quiet |
Toward - Away |
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Cautious - Careless |
Partial - Complete |
Tragic - Comic |
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Complex - Simple |
Passive - Active |
Transparent - Opaque |
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Crazy - Sane |
Permanent - Unstable |
Triumph - Defeat |
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Crooked - Straight |
Plentiful - Sparse |
Union - Separation |
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Demand - Supply |
Positive - Negative |
Unique - Common |
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Destroy - Create |
Powerful - Weak |
Upset - Relaxed |
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Divide - Unite |
Praise - Criticism |
Urge - Deter |
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Drunk - Sober |
Private - Public |
Vacant - Occupied |
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Expand - Contract |
Problem - Solution |
Vague - Definite |
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Freeze - Boil |
Professional - Amateur |
Villain - Hero |
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Full - Empty |
Profit - Loss |
Wax - Wane |
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Generous - Stingy |
Quality - Inferiority |
Wealth - Poverty |
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Add - Subtract ·
Above - Below ·
After - Before ·
Awake - Asleep ·
Bad - Good ·
Better - Worse ·
Big - Little ·
Birth - Death ·
Boy - Girl ·
Clean - Dirty ·
Close - Open ·
Cold - Hot ·
End - Begin ·
Dark - Light ·
Day - Night ·
Even - Odd ·
Fail - Pass ·
False - True ·
Float - Sink ·
East - West ·
Fat - Skinny ·
Hungry - Full ·
Gentle - Rough |
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Happy - Sad ·
Hard - Soft ·
Heavy - Light ·
High - Low ·
In - Out ·
Last - First ·
Laugh - Cry ·
Learn - Teach ·
Less - More ·
Lie - Truth ·
Long - Short ·
Loose - Tight ·
Lost - Found ·
Love - Hate ·
North - South ·
On - Off ·
Over - Under ·
Play - Work ·
Polite - Rude ·
Poor - Rich ·
Present - Absent ·
Top - Bottom ·
Quick - Slow |
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Raise - Lower ·
Right - Wrong ·
Rise - Sink ·
Rough - Smooth ·
Same - Different ·
Sell - Buy ·
Short - Long ·
Sour - Sweet ·
Start - Stop ·
Stay - Leave ·
Stop - Go ·
Strong - Weak ·
Teacher - Student ·
Tidy - Messy ·
True - False ·
Ugly - Beautiful ·
Up - Down ·
White - Black ·
Wild - Tame ·
Win - Lose ·
Well - Sick ·
Wet - Dry ·
Young - Old |
Homonym
Examples
Homonyms are words that have the same
spelling and sound the same but have different meanings. While this can be a
tricky concept to explain, posting a nice list in the classroom may prove
beneficial. Here's a healthy list of homonyms to start the conversation:
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Bear - a large mammal |
Bear - to be able to cope
with something |
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Book - to reserve a hotel
room or a table at a restaurant |
Book - pages bound together
with a cover |
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Cave - to give in or
surrender |
Cave - a hole or gap in a
rock or in earth |
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Chair - an item of
furniture |
Chair - the head of a
department |
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Change - to replace the
clothes you are wearing with another outfit |
Change - money given back
after a purchase |
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Cool - chilly in
temperature |
Cool - someone trendy or
popular |
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Crane - a large type of
bird |
Crane - a mechanical device
used for lifting |
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Deck - a pack of playing
cards |
Deck - a floor or platform
extended from a building or ship |
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Duck - a type of bird |
Duck - to lower your head
or body to avoid being hit by something |
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Even - numbers divisible by
two |
Even - flat and level surface |
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Fall - to drop down |
Fall- the season between
summer and winter |
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Club- a heavy stick used as
a weapon |
Club - a group of people
with something in common |
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Fire - to let someone go
from a job |
Fire - flames, something
burning |
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Groom - to make tidy in appearance |
Groom - the man who is
about to get married |
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Gross - disgusting |
Gross - large |
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Jam - stuck |
Jam - spread made from
fruit and sugar |
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Key - scale of musical
notes |
Key - device used to lock
or unlock a door |
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Left - one side of the body |
Left - what is remaining of
something |
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Light - to set fire |
Light - pale in color |
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Line - measure of length |
Line - verse in a poem or
story |
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Man - male person |
Man - to brace or fortify |
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Match - competitive
sporting event |
Match - a device used to
start a fire |
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Nail - the end plate of
your finger or toe |
Nail - sharp piece of metal
for holding things together |
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Park - area used for
recreation |
Park - to leave a vehicle
in a space for a while |
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Pen - an instrument for
writing |
Pen - type of enclosure for
animals |
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Seal - a type of mammal |
Seal - a tight closure |
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Show - to display |
Show - a type of broadcast |
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Sign - omen |
Sign - to write your
signature on something to make it official |
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Tank - military vehicle |
Tank- container used to
store liquid |
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Tire - rubber covering of a
wheel |
Tire - to become weary or
bored |
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Trip - to stumble |
Trip - a journey |
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Wave - move your hand
sideways to say hello |
Wave - a movement in water |
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Watch - a wearable
timepiece |
Watch - to look carefully |
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Yard - space around a house |
Yard - measurement of length |
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