Opposites

Words

Opposites

about
above
absence
abundance
to accept
accidental
active

exactly
below
presence
lack
to refuse
intentional
lazy

to add

to subtract

consonant

vowel

to forbid

to admit
adult
advanced
affirmative
afraid
after
against

to deny
child
elementary
negative
brave
before
for

constant
construction
to continue
cool
correct
courage
courageous

for
foreground
foreign
foreigner
to forget
to form
fortune

alike

different

cowardly

forward

backward

alive

dead

to create

to free

to arrest

all

none

cruel

to freeze

to melt

always
ancient

to cry
to cry

frequently
friend

occasionally
enemy

curly

straight

front

rear

to allow
already
always
amateur
to amuse

never
modern
to refuse, to
argue
to forbid
not yet
never
professional
to bore

changeable
destruction
to interrupt
warm
false, wrong
fear
cowardly
brave,
courageous
to destroy
human, kind
humane
to whisper
to laugh

Opposites
to lose
to begin
start
final, last
to break
hilly
ceiling
to lead
to allow, to let,
to permit
against
background
domestic
native
to remember
to destroy
bad luck

to damage
danger
dangerous
dark

to repair
security, safety
safe
light

in front of
full
funny
future

back, behind
empty
serious
past, present

angel

devil

daughter

son

general

animal

human

dawn

dusk

generous

to annoy

to satisfy

day

night

gentle

to answer
answer
antonym

to ask
question
synonym

deep
defeat
delicious

shallow
victory
awful

gentleman
girl
to give

apart

together

to deny

to admit

to go

approximately

exactly

to depart

to arrive

good

to agree

Words
Opposites
cold (adj)
hot
cold (noun)
heat
to come
to go
comedy
drama, tragedy
complicated
simple
compliment
insult
compulsory
voluntary
to connect
to separate

Words
to find
to finish
finish
first
to fix
flat
floor
to follow

G
particular,
special
mean
violent, rough,
strict
lady
boy
to take
to come, to
stop
bad

to argue
to arrest
arrival

to agree
to free, to set
free

departure

arrival

godfather

godmother

desperate

hopeful

grown-up

child

departure

to destroy

to build, to
create, to form

guest

host

guilty

innocent

destruction

construction

artificial
to ask
asleep

to depart, to
leave
natural
to answer
awake

devil
dictatorship
to die

to attack

to defend

different

angel
democracy
to live
alike, equal,
the same

to arrive

H
happiness
happy

sadness
sad

handsome

ugly

attic

defense,
protection
cellar

autumn

spring

disease

health

to hate

awake

distant

near

health

to divide

to unite

healthy

ill, sick

back

asleep
delicious, nice,
pleasant
B
in front of

to plant
to enjoy, to
like, to love
disease, illness

division
to divorce

heat
heaven

cold
hell

background

foreground

divorce

heavy

light

backward
bad

divorced
domestic

hell
here

heaven
there

down

up

high

deep

beauty
before
to begin

forward
good
fortune, good
luck
ugliness
after
to end, to finish

unity
to marry
marriage,
wedding
married
foreign

downstairs
drama
dry

upstairs
comedy
humid, wet

high
hilly
to hit

beginning

end, ending

dull

interesting

hopeful

behind
below
best
better
beautiful
big
birth
bitter
black
blunt
body

in front of
above
worst
worse
ugly
small
death
sweet
white
sharp
soul
to amuse, to be
interested in

dusk

dawn

hopeless
horizontal
host
hot
huge
human
humane
humid
hungry
husband

low
flat
to miss
desperate,
hopeless
hopeful
vertical
guest, visitor
cold
tiny
animal
cruel
dry
thirsty
wife

attack

awful

bad luck

to bore

difficult

easy

hard

easy, soft

dirty

clean

to harvest

E
early
east
easy
elementary
to emigrate
emigration
empty
to end
end

late
west
difficult, hard
advanced
to immigrate
immigration
full
to begin
beginning

ending

beginning

I
in front of

back, behind

boring
to borrow
bottom
boy
brave
to break
broad
brother
to build
busy
to buy
calm
careful
careless
to catch
ceiling
cellar
center

exciting,
interesting
to lend
top
girl
cowardly,
afraid
to mend, to fix
narrow
sister
to destroy
lazy
to sell
C
excited
careless
careful
to miss, to
throw
floor
attic
outskirts,
suburb

enemy

friend

to ignore

to notice

to enjoy
to enter
entrance

to hate
to leave
exit

ill
to immigrate
immigration

healthy, well
to emigrate
emigration

equal

different

import

export

even
evening
everybody
everything
exactly
excited
exciting
to exclude
exit
expensive

odd
morning
nobody
nothing
approximately
calm
boring
to include
entrance
cheap

in
to include
to increase
innocent
inside
insult
intelligent
intentional
interested
interesting

out
to exclude
to reduce
guilty
outside
compliment
silly, stupid
accidental
bored
boring, dull

export

import

to interrupt

to continue

exposure
extreme

shelter
moderate
F

certainly

probably

to fail

changeable
cheap
child
children
clean
clever
to close
closed

constant
expensive
adult, grown-up
parents
dirty
stupid
to open
open
clear, sunny,
bright

failure
false
far
fast
fat
fear
female
few

to succeed, to
pass
success
correct, true
near
slow
slim, thin
courage
male
many

final

first

cloudy

J
to jeopardize

to secure

jolly

unhappy

junior

senior
K

keen
kind

uninterested
cruel, nasty

NOTE: this list of opposites is of course by no means an extensive one. More opposites can be
added
Words

Opposites
L

lack
lady
to land
land

abundance,
plenty
gentleman
to take off
water

Words
outside

Opposites
inside

Words
south

outskirts

center

special

over

under

spring
to stand
to start

P
parents

children

Opposites
north
general,
ordinary
autumn
to sit
to stop

large

small

part

whole

start

last
late
to laugh

first
early
to cry

partial
particular
to pass

total
general
to fail

to stop
to stand
strange

lazy

active, busy

past

future, present

strict

to lead
to learn

peace
to permit

war
to forbid

strong
student

to plant

to harvest

stupid

plenty
pleasant
polite
poor
poverty
powerful
presence
present
pretty
private
probably
professional
to protect
protection
public
to pull
pupil
to push

lack
awful
rude, impolite
rich, wealthy
wealth
weak
absence
past, future
ugly
public
certainly
amateur
to attack
attack
private
to push
teacher
to pull

suburb
to succeed
success
to subtract
sugar
summer
sun
sunny
supporter
to suspect
sweet
synonym

major
male
man
many
marriage
married
to marry

to follow
to teach
to arrive, to
enter
right
to borrow
more
to forbid
to stand
death
dark, heavy
to hate
solid
big, large
much
to die
short
to find, to win
winner
quiet
to hate
terrible
high
to raise
M
minor
female
woman
few, some
divorce
divorced, single
to divorce

master

servant

to refuse

maximum
mean
to melt
men

minimum
generous
to freeze
women

regret
to remember
to repair
to reply

to leave
left
to lend
less
to let
to lie
life
light
to like
liquid
little
little
to live
long
to lose
loser
loud
to love
lovely
low
to lower

Q
question
quick
quiet

answer
slow
loud, noisy
R

to raise
rainy
rear
to receive
to reduce

to lower
sunny
front
to send
to increase
to agree, to
accept
satisfaction
to forget
to damage
to ask

finish, end,
stop
to start, to go
to lie
normal
tolerant,
indulgent
weak
teacher
clever,
intelligent
center
to fail
failure
to add
salt
winter
moon
cloudy, rainy
opponent
to trust
bitter, sour
antonym
T

to take
to take off
tall
to teach
teacher
thankful
terrible
there
then
thin
to throw
tight
tiny
together
tomorrow

to give
to land
small, short
to learn
pupil, student
thankless
lovely
here
now
thick, fat
to catch
loose
huge
apart
yesterday

top

bottom

total
town
tragedy
trivial

partial
village
comedy
important

to mend

to break

reply

to rest
rich

question
dictatorship,
monarchy
to work
poor

mess

order

republic

midnight
minimum

noon
maximum

minor

ugliness

major

right

left, wrong

ugly

to miss

to hit, to catch

to rise

under

moderate

extreme

rough

modern
monarchy
moon
more
morning
mountain
much

ancient, old
republic
sun
less
evening
valley
little

rude
rural

to sink
gentle,
smooth, soft
polite
urban

N
narrow
nasty

S
sad
happy
sadness
happiness
safe
dangerous
safety
danger
same, similar
different
satisfaction dissatisfaction
to satisfy
to dissatisfy
to spend, to
to save
waste
to scream
to whisper
security
danger
seldom
often
to sell
to buy
to send
to receive
to sit
to stand
senior
junior
to connect, to
to separate
unite
serious
funny
servant
master

true

false

to trust

to suspect
U

to unite
unity
up
upstairs
urban
urgent
useless
V
vacant
valley
vertical

occupied
mountain
horizontal

victory

defeat

village
violent
visitor
voluntary
vowel

town
gentle
host
compulsory
consonant

natural
near
negative
nephew
never
new
nice

broad, wide
nice, pleasant
foreigner,
stranger
artificial
distant, far
affirmative
niece
always
ancient, old
awful, nasty

niece

nephew

night
no

day
yes

nobody

everybody

to set free

to arrest

weak

noisy
noon
none of
normal
north
not yet

quiet, silent
midnight
all of
strange
south
already

shallow
sharp
shelter
short
to shout
to shut

deep
blunt
exposure
long, tall
to whisper
to open

wealth
wealthy
wedding
well
west
wet

nothing

everything

sick

healthy

to whisper

to notice
now

to ignore
then

silent
silly, stupid

noisy
intelligent

white
whole

native

beauty
beautiful,
handsome,
pretty
over
to divide, to
separate
division
down
downstairs
rural
leisurely
useful

W
war

peace

warm

cool

to waste
water

to save
land
powerful,
strong
poverty
poor
divorce
ill
east
dry
to scream, to
shout
black
part

O
occasionally
occupied
odd
off

simple
to sink
single
sister
slim

complicated
to rise
married
brother
fat

wide
wife
to win
winner
winter

narrow
husband
to lose
loser
summer

slow

fast, quick

to work

to rest

small

big, large, tall

woman

man

on
to open
open

frequently
vacant
even
on
seldom,
sometimes
modern, new,
young
off
to close, to shut
closed, shut

smooth
soft
solid

women
worse
worst

men
better
best

opponent

supporter

somber

wrong

correct, right

order
ordinary
other
out

mess
special
same
in

some
son
soul
sour

rough
hard, rough
liquid
colorful,
cheerful
many
daughter
body
sweet

often
old

Y
yes
yesterday
young

no
tomorrow
old

This is a list of opposites of some adjectives for beginners. See a more extended list of opposites
Adjectives

Opposites

alive

dead

beautiful

ugly

big

small

bitter

sweet

cheap

expensive

clean

dirty

curly

straight

difficult

easy

good

bad

early

late

fat

thin

full

empty

hot

cold

happy

sad/unhappy

hardworking

lazy

modern

traditional

new

old

nice

nasty

intelligent

stupid

interesting

boring

light

heavy

polite

rude/impolite

poor

rich

quiet

noisy

right

wrong

safe

dangerous

short

long

small

big

soft

hard

single

married

true

false

well

ill/unwell

white

black