Most Common Antonyms in English
Most Common Antonyms in English

English antonyms. What are the most commonly used antonyms in English?

Antonyms are words that contradict each other in terms of meaning. Antonyms are very useful in memorizing words, which is one of the most important elements of language learning. Learning a word with its opposite meaning increases its memorability and makes learning easier. Below are frequently used antonyms in English.

Above Below
Alive Dead
All None
Ask Reply
Awake Asleep
Beautiful Ugly
Begin End
Big Small
Black White
Boring Exciting
Bottom Top
Boy Girl
Buy Sell 
Careful Careless
Catch Miss
Clean Dirty
Combine Separate
Come Go
Dangerous Safe
Deep Shallow
Die Live
Domestic Foreign
Early Late
East  West
Easy Difficult
Everything Nothing
Exit Enter
Expensive Cheap
Export Import
Fake Real
Far Near
Fast Slow
Find Lose
Floor Ceiling
Forget Remember
Friend Enemy
Full Empty
Future Past
Give Take
Go Stop
Good Bad
Happy Sad/Unhappy
Hard Soft
Heaven Hell
Heavy Light
High Low
Hot Cold
İmportant Trivial
Include Exclude
Inside Outside
Kind Rude
Lazy Hardworking
Left Right
Let Forbid
Light Dark
Love Hate
Male Female
Melt Freeze
More Less
New Old
North South
Open Close
Over Under
Peace War
Positive Negative
Push Pull
Quiet Loud
Regular Irregular 
Rich Poor
Right Wrong
Same Different
Single Married
Slim Fat
Smart Stupid
Special Genaral
Strong Weak
Subjective Objective
Summer Winter
Tall Short
Teach Learn
Thick Thin
Tight Loose
True False
Up Down
Wet Dry
Wide Narrow
Win Lose
Young Old

 

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