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ANTONYM

ANTONYM
<Ant-o-nim>

Antonym means a word with an opposite meaning to another word.



Up is an antonym to down.

n. [Gr. a word used in substitution for another; + , , a word.] A word of opposite meaning; a counter term; — used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

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