Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet ANTONYMS

Definition av ANTONYMS

1. böjningsform av antonym

Exempel på hur man kan använda ANTONYMS i en mening

• A thesaurus (: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
• The term's antonyms include agreement, consensus (when all or nearly all parties agree on something) and consent (when one party agrees to a proposition made by another).
• Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
• The changes in 2011 include a reduced emphasis on rote vocabulary knowledge and the elimination of antonyms and analogies.
• The designation "Puritan" is often used incorrectly, based on the assumption that hedonism and puritanism are antonyms: historically, the word was used to characterise the Protestant group as extremists similar to the Cathari of France, and according to Thomas Fuller in his Church History, dated back to 1564.
• The use of synonyms and antonyms clarifies connotational choices as between, say, pejorative and euphemistic usages.
• This requires an understanding of lexical hierarchy, including hyponymy and hypernymy, meronomy, polysemy, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms.
• Adjectives in semantic lexicons are organized in word pairs as well, with the difference being that their word pairs are antonyms instead of entailments.
• Converses are sometimes referred to as complementary antonyms because an "either/or" relationship is present between them.
• The Universal reduplicated plural and inverted antonyms are reminiscent of the musical language Solresol.
• The NTM-Longman e-dictionary deals with 338,000 words, phrases and meanings; 78,000 head entries, 5,400 encyclopaedic entries, 54,000 phrases, over 515,000 examples and 26,000 synonyms, antonyms and related words.
• In the preparation of The Standard Dictionary, Fernald was editor of synonyms, antonyms, and prepositions, and he was editor-in-chief of the Students' Standard Dictionary and other abridgments.

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