Gradable opposites (antonyms)
The most common gradable adjectives can be grouped into pairs of opposites (antonyms) which refer to features like height: short – tall; heat: hot – cold, size; big – small, etc. These adjectives are at the upper and lower parts of an open-ended scale (a scale with no maximum or minimum): …

antonym | American Dictionary

antonym
noun[ C ]
us/ˈæn·təˌnɪm/
grammar
a word or phrase whose meaning is the opposite of another word or phrase

Examples of antonym

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My usage of ' abstract ' here as simply the antonym to ' concrete ' is in line with contemporary popular usage rather than early modern technical usage.
Unlike traditional hard-to-use thesauruses, online easy-to-use references reach the target information directly with alphabetically arranged synonyms or antonyms with both brief definitions and usage information.
A good command of synonyms, antonyms and other related words adds to the stylistic elegance of a text.
A negation lexical operator is implemented with the antonym relation, linking words with opposite meanings.
As we have seen, substitutions of antonyms are thought to belong to a broader category of oppositional substitutions, which also comprises discourse opposites.
And, the word "diehard" has two negative parts but turns out to be positive compared to its antonym "pushover".
Every main entry has a list first of synonyms then of antonyms.
Two other antonyms were applied to the two linguistic varieties (variables 10 and 11).
Words can either be direct antonyms, as in this boy is strong, but this boy is weak, or can be less explicit.
The antonym 'anisosyllabic' is gaining ground in linguistics, although it still remains a neologism.
As word association distributions supposedly represent conceptual similarity, it is assumed that the underlying representations for antonyms are conceptual in nature.
The bureaucrat is a figure nearly universally drawn in modern political theory as an antonym of heroic action.
We show how to objectively identify useful, but not obvious, keywords that may not be lexically related, for example, as synonyms and antonyms.
As for an inclusive collective term, there is much to be said for calling these services ' private ' policing, as the antonym of ' public ' policing.
Four types of bounded antonyms emerged from the participants' judgements.
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