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Could you give examples of words that are synonyms and antonyms? |
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Synonyms: Different words having the same or similar meaning.
Synonyms for chasm: pit, gulf, abyss, gorge, gulch.
Antonym: A word of opposite meaning. Usually, this implies that the words can be thought of as being on some kind of scale or continuum.
hot: cold The 'scale' or 'continuum' being some sense of heat, whether it is physical or figurative.
huge: tiny The 'scale' being size.
weighty: trivial The 'scale' being degree of importance.
up: down; and left: right The scale being relative direction.
peanut butter: jam Hmmm. Jam seems not to fit. Jam is no more 'opposite' peanut butter than is jet ski.
Words can be grouped together in many different ways; synonym and antonym describe just two basic ways. Peanut butter and jam are clearly related, aren't they? But they are neither synonyms nor are they antonyms.
happy and sad are antonyms
glad is a synonym for happy and another antonym for sad
sad is a synonym for depressed and an antonym for glad
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