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Opposite Words in English

An opposite word can be defined as a word that expresses a meaning as opposed to the meaning of
a particular word. In this case, the two words are called antonyms of each other. ‘Opposite words’ is
an important topic in English Grammar, especially at the school level and students must learn as many
as antonyms/opposite words as this would be a great booster for improving their vocabulary and
improving their command of the English language.

Let’s understand the concept of Opposite words with the help of some examples-

'Beautiful' is the opposite word of 'Ugly.'

'Happiness' is the opposite word of 'Sadness.'
'Fast' is the opposite word of 'Slow.'
'Clean' is the opposite word of 'Dirty.' and so on.

1000+ Opposite/ Antonyms Words

The topic “Opposite Words” is vast and impossible for a person to learn the antonyms of all words in
the English dictionary. However, there are numerous opposite words that we often use in our daily
life but some of us may don’t know the opposite of many other words. For your reference, we have
tabulated 1000+ opposite words in this article, read and try to grasp some new words with their
opposite meanings. Through this article, you will be able you learn numerous opposite words used in
English Grammar and this will definitely enhance your vocabulary especially when you are preparing
for Bank Exams, SSC Exams, UPSC, and other competitive exams where you have to prepare for
English subject.

Basic Opposite Words

Help your kid learn opposite words in a fun way from this article as we have separately listed
opposite meanings of words alphabetically. The list of basic opposite words is quite important for the
students of Classes 5th, 6th, and 7th as this is the time where they have to build a strong base of their
vocabulary.

A list of simple and basic opposite words in English is given below. Use them to improve your English
vocabulary.
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simple opposite words.

Word Opposite Word

Antonym Synonym

Approximately Exactly

Ask Reply

Authentic Fake

Awake Asleep

Bad Good

Beautiful Ugly

Before After

Boy Girl

Bold Timid

Bright Dim

Broad Narrow

Best Worst

Child Adult

Changeable Constant

Clemency Ruthlessness

Concise Lengthy

Construction Destruction

Delicious Awful

Descent Ascent

Dictatorship Republic

Domestic Foreign

Dwindle Flourish

Early Late
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Entrance Exit

Even Odd
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Eccentric Ordinary

Far Near

Friend Enemy

Full Empty

Funny Serious

Frequently Occasionally

General Particular, Special

Generous Mean

Gentle Violent

Give Take

Happy Sad

Hard Easy

Heavy Light

Honest Dishonest

Hot Cold

Hopeful Desperate, Hopeless

Horizontal Vertical

Humid Dry

Import Export

Inside Outside

In Out

Interesting Boring, Dull

Junior Senior

Kind Cruel, Unkind

Large Small

Lead Follow
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Lend Borrow

Light Dark
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Love Hate

Little Big

Laugh Cry

Left Right

Liquid Solid

Mend Break

Mess Order

Moderate Extreme

More Less

Man Woman

Messy Neat

Modern Ancient

Normal Strange

Opposite Same

Opponent Supporter

Praise Castigate

Refuse Agree

Regret Satisfaction

Rich Poor

Rude Polite

Start End

Sunny Cloudy

Sweet Sour

Strengthen Debilitate

Tight Loose

Top Bottom
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Thick Thin

Tiny Huge
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Truth Lie

Unity Division

Useful Useless

Victory Defeat

Victory Defeat

Visible Invisible

Visitor Host

Wide Narrow

Wise Foolish, Stupid

Whisper Scream

Opposite Words in the English Language

An extensive list of opposite words/ antonyms of the most commonly used English words is given
below. Let's have a look at important Opposite Words alphabetically from letters A to Z.

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘A’

Words Opposite Word

Adorable Hateful

Adequate Insufficient

Affordable Costly

Attractive Boring

Awesome Bad

Abundance Lack

Accidental Intentional

Advanced Elementary

Affable Unfriendly

Amateur Professional
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Amiable Grumpy

Ancestor Descendant
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Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘B’

Words Opposite Word

Beauty Grotesqueness

Believe Disbelieve

Beloved Unbeloved

Benefit Drawback

Balk Impetus

Beneficial Detrimental

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘C’

Words Opposite Word

Care Carelessness

Carry Exclude

Cavalier Humble

Clumsy Adroit

Creative Uninventive

Cut Restore

Close Far

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘D’

Words Opposite Words

Darling Unbeloved

Dear Unbeloved

Deep Shallow

Demand Disclaim

Destroy Raise
Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘E’
Words Opposite Words

Effective Ineffective
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Efficient Inefficient

Effort Ease

Enjoy Abhor

Enough Inadequate

Emigrate Immigrate

Enslave Emancipate

Ephemeral Long-lived

Excitable Tranquil

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘F’

Words Opposite Words

Fabulous Ordinary

Fair Foul

Fast Slow

Few Many

Flaccid Taut

Forgive Resent

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘G’

Words Opposite Words

Gentle Abrasive

Great Little

Genius Stupidity

Glad Dismayed

Gorgeous Uninteresting

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘H’

 Words Opposite Words

Habit Disinclination

Happy Sad
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Help Hinder

Humanity Inhumanity

Hurt Heal

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘I’

Words Opposite Words

Illegal Legal

Ignominy Glory

Impress Disappoint

Intrepid Cowardly

Independent Dependent

Inception Conclusion

Innocent Guilty

Inspire Depress

Install Remove

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘J’

Words Opposite Words

Joke Humourless

Jolly Miserable

Joy Misery

Justice Injustice

Justify Disprove

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘K’

Words Opposite Words

Keen Reluctant
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Keep Spend

Kickoff End
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Kind Unkind

Knowledge Ignorance

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘L’

Words Opposite Words

Little Plenty

Lively Listless

Lost Regain

Love Hatred

Luck Misfortune

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘M’

Words Opposite Words

Magic Awful

Make Destroy

Master Servant

Mature Immature

Morality Immorality

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘N’

Words Opposite Words

Neat Disorderly

Need Optional

Next Previous

Nice Unpleasant

Normal Abnormal

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘O’

 Words Opposite Words

Objective Biassed

Odium Affection
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Offer Withdraw

Omnipotent Impotent

Optimistic Pessimistic

Outstanding Mediocre

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘P’

Words Opposite Words

Pause Continue

Peace Noise

Potential Impotence

Power Inability

Pretty Plain

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘Q’

Words Opposite Words

Qualify Disqualify

Quality Inadequacy

Quick Slow

Quiet Loud

Quit Stay

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘R’

Words Opposite Words

Real Unreal

Recall Forget

Relax Tense

Report Silence
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Rough Gentle

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘S’

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Words Opposite Words

Simple Difficult

Sincere Perfunctory

Small Big

Soft Hard

Sure Unsure

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘T’

Words Opposite Words

Talent Inability

Talkative Taciturn

Target Deselect

Task Inactivity

Tenderhearted Fiendish

Triumph Defeat

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘U’

Words Opposite Words

Unique Common

Upturn Slump

Unite Divide

Unlimited Finite

Uplift Lower

Useful Useless

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘V’

 Words Opposite Words

Valid Invalid

Valuable Worthless
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Variety Uniformity

Vast Tiny

Victory Defeat

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘W’

Words Opposite Words

Warning Neglect

Wealth Poverty

Winner Loser

Wise Stupid

Worthy Unimportant

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘X’

Words Opposite Words

Xenial Inhospitable

Xenophobic Impartial

Xeroxes Original

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘Y’

Words Opposite Word

Young Old

Yield Resist

Yearning Disinclination

Youthful Old

Yummy Unappetizing

Opposite Words Starting with the Letter ‘Z’

 Words Opposite Word

Zappy Melancholy

Zany Sane
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Zeal Apathy

Zenith Nadir, Bottom

Zen Disturbed

Zingy Sullen

Opposite Words Exercise for SSC and UPSC Exams

The aspirants appearing for government examinations frequently face questions related to
antonyms/opposite words in the English language section of various exams such as SSC (SSC CGL,
CHSL, JE etc.), UPSC (NDA, CDS etc), Banking and more. Opposite Words are asked in the vocabulary
section which won’t be as simple as the basic opposite words listed above. Practice for opposite
words with a few important questions enlisted below from the perspective of competitive
examinations.

Directions: In the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Q1. MELODIOUS
(a) Harmonious
(b) Tuneless
(c) Odious
(d) Mellifluous

Ans. (c)
Sol. Melodious: pleasant to listen to, Odious: extremely unpleasant, horrible. Mellifluous: pleasingly
smooth and musical to hear. Hence Melodious and Odious are antonyms to each other.

Q2. FIENDISH
(a) Diabolical
(b) Devilish
(c) Reimbursement
(d) Friendly

Ans. (d)
Sol. Fiendish: cruel and unpleasant: extremely clever and complicated. Friendly: Behaving in a kind
and pleasant way showing kindness. Reimbursement: a sum paid to cover the money that has been
spent or lost. Hence Fiendish and Friendly are antonyms to each other.
 Q3. SUBSEQUENT
(a) Eventual
(b) Succeeding
(c) Prior
(d) Comparative
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Ans. (c)
Sol. Subsequent: Happening or coming after something else. Prior: Happening or existing before
something else. Hence Subsequent and Prior are antonyms to each other.

Q4. SOBRIETY
(a) Modernization
(b) Drunkenness
(c) Despicable
(d) Stupidity

Ans. (b)
Sol. Sobriety: the state of being sober not being drunk; the fact of being sensible and serious.
Despicable: deserving hatred and contempt. Drunkenness: the state of being drunk; intoxication.
Hence Sobriety and Drunkenness are antonyms to each other.

Q5. NEFARIOUS
(a) Slapdash
(b) Perfect
(c) Unblemished
(d) Righteous

Ans. (d)
Sol. Nefarious: (typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal. Righteous: morally right or
justifiable. Slapdash: done too hurriedly and carelessly. Hence Nefarious and Righteous are antonyms
to each other.

Q6. RECUPERATE
(a) Relapse
(b) Rude
(c) Rush
(d) Sparse

Ans. (a)
Sol. Recuperate: recover from illness or exertion. Relapse: a deterioration in someone's state of
health after a temporary improvement. Sparse: scanty; in short supply. Hence Recuperate and
Relapse is antonyms to each other.

Q7. TREMULOUS

(a) Healthy
(b) Steady
(c) Obese
(d) Young

Ans. (b)
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or moving. Obese: grossly fat or overweight. Hence Tremulous and Steady are antonyms to each
other.

Q8. ELUDE
(a) Dodge
(b) Support
(c) Thwart
(d) Flee

Ans. (b)
Sol. Elude: evade or escape from (a danger, enemy or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.
Dodge: avoid (someone or something) by a sudden quick movement. Thwart: prevent (someone) from
accomplishing something. Hence Elude and Support are antonyms to each other.

Q9. CONTEMPTUOUS
(a) Respected
(b) Derisive (c)
Haughty
(d) Expedite

Ans. (a) Sol. Contemptuous: showing contempt; scornful. Derisive: expressing contempt or ridicule.
Expedite: make (an action or process) happen sooner. Hence Contemptuous and Respected are
antonyms to each other.

Q10. RELISH
(a) Zest
(b) Apathy
(c) Corporal
(d) Prototype

Ans. (b) Sol. Relish: Great Enjoyment. Apathy: lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern. Hence Relish
and Apathy are antonyms to each other.

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