by sheila_admin | Jun 17, 2012 | Vocabulary & Spelling
A Synonym is a word which has almost exactly the same meaning as another word. For example: student – pupil old – ancient Note: Compare this with antonyms which are words of opposite meanings. In English, there are no perfect synonyms. Two words may be...
by sheila_admin | Jun 17, 2012 | Language Functions, Linguistics, Vocabulary & Spelling
An Antonym or Opposite is a word which – generally speaking – has the opposite meaning to another word. For example, the following are antonyms: big ↔ small fat ↔ thin tall ↔ short old ↔ young male ↔ female Some words will have more than one antonym...
