List 23 - Antonyms

Antonym refers to a word that means the opposite of another word.

above	below	hill	valley
abroad	home	humble	proud
absent	present	husband	wife
absent	present	in	out
accept	refuse	include	exclude
active	passive	increase	decrease
add	subtract	increase	decrease
admit	deny	indifferent	interested
adult	child	inner	outer
alive	dead	inside	outside
all	none	insult	praise
allow	refuse	interested	bored
always	never	interesting	dull
arrive	depart	joy	sorrow
asleep	awake	junior	senior
back	front	kind	cruel
backwards	forward	kind	cruel
bad	good	knowledge	ignorance
barren	fertile	lazy	industrious
beautiful	ugly	lead	follow
before	after	least	greatest
begin	end	leave	arrive
bent	straight	lend	borrow
best	worst	level	steep
better	worse	life	death
big	small	liquid	solid
black	white	long	short
blameless	guilty	loss	gain
bless	curse	loud	soft
blunt	sharp	love	hate
bold	timid	majority	minority
bold	timid	many	few
boss	employee	masculine	feminine
bravery	cowardice	master	servant
break	repair	mean	kind
bridge	tunnel	miser	spendthrift
bright	dull	modern	ancient
broad	narrow	most	least
busy	idle	motorist	pedestrian
buy	sell	mountain	valley
capture	release	natural	artificial
catch	throw	near	far
cheap	dear	never	always
city	country	niece	nephew
clean	dirty	noise	silence
clever	foolish	noisy	quiet
cloudy	clear	normal	abnormal
clumsy	graceful	north	south
coarse	fine	notice	ignore
cold	hot	obey	command
come	go	obtain	give
comedy	tragedy	often	seldom
comfort	disturb	old	new
common	rare	omit	include
common	unusual	open	shut/close
contract	expand	order	chaos
cool	warm	overlook	notice
coward	hero	pardon	punish
cowardly	bold	part	whole
create	destroy	past	future
cry	laugh	peace	war
daily	nightly	plural	singular
danger	safety	polite	rude
dark	bright	polite	rude
dawn	dusk	poor	rich
day	night	powerful	weak
deep	shallow	praise	blame
depth	height	public	private
die	live	public	private
difficult	easy	punish	reward
dim	bright	pupil	teacher
discourteous	polite	purchase	sell
divide	multiply	push	pull
doctor	patient	question	answer
drunk	sober	quick	slow
dry	wet	raw	cooked
dwarf	giant	raw	cooked
early	late	real	imaginary
east	west	right	left
easy	difficult	rise	fall
ebb	flow	rough	smooth
empty	full	sad	cheerful
enemy	friend	safe	dangerous
enjoy	dislike	safe	dangerous
entrance	exit	same	different
evening	morning	separate	join
ever	never	several	few
everybody	nobody	silly	serious
everywhere	nowhere	similar	different
exit	entrance	slim	fat
fact	fiction	smile	frown
failure	success	smile	frown
fair	dark	straight	crooked
famous	unknown	straight	crooked
fancy	plain	strange	familiar
far	near	strong	weak
fat	thin	summer	winter
fat	skinny	sweet	sour
few	many	sweet	sour
find	lose	talk	listen
finish	start	tall	short
first	last	tame	wild
flatter	insult	teach	learn
foe	friend	teacher	student
foolish	wise	these	those
foreign	local	thick	thin
forget	remember	this	that
found	lost	tight	loose
freeze	thaw	tiny	huge
fresh	stale	top	bottom
fresh	stale	trainer	trainee
friend	enemy	trust	doubt
full	vacant	truth	lie
future	past	under	over
generous	selfish	unusual	ordinary
give	receive	up	down
give	take	upset	comfort
graceful	awkward	vacant	occupied
guilty	innocent	vacant	occupied
guilty	innocent	valuable	worthless
happy	sad	victory	defeat
happy	sad	villain	hero
hard	easy	war	peace
hard	soft	wide	narrow
head	tail	win	lose
heavy	light	wise	foolish
hell	heaven	within	without
help	hinder	work	rest
here	there	wrong	right
hide	show	yes	no
high	low	young	old

Antonyms (un-)

attractive	unattractive	justifiable	unjustifiable
able	unable	known	unknown
acceptable	unacceptable	lawful	unlawful
accompanied	unaccompanied	licensed	unlicensed
arm	unarm	like	unlike
certain	uncertain	lock	unlock
comfortable	uncomfortable	necessary	unnecessary
common	uncommon	patriotic	unpatriotic
conscious	unconscious	popular	unpopular
dress	undress	prepared	unprepared
equal	unequal	safe	unsafe
ethical	unethical	screw	unscrew
even	uneven	seen	unseen
fair	unfair	selfish	unselfish
fold	unfold	steady	unsteady
friendly	unfriendly	suitable	unsuitable
happy	unhappy	tidy	untidy
healthy	unhealthy	tie	untie
just	unjust	used	unused
kind	unkind	willing	unwilling
known	unknown	wise	unwise

Antonyms (dis-)

advantage	disadvantage	enfranchise	disenfranchise
agree	disagree	honest	dishonest
allow	disallow	incentive	disincentive
appear	disappear	indispensable	dispensable
arm	disarm	like	dislike
arrange	disarrange	loyal	disloyal
associate	disassociate	obey	disobey
believe	disbelieve	proportionate	disproportionate
connect	disconnect	order	disorder
continue	discontinue	own	disown
embark	disembark	satisfied	dissatisfied
encourage	discourage	trust	distrust

Antonyms (in-)

accurate	inaccurate
active	inactive
adequate	inadequate
admissible	inadmissible
attentive	inattentive
correct	incorrect

Antonyms (im-)

mature	immature
mobile	immobile
moral	immoral
mortal	immortal
movable	immovable
patient	impatient
perfect	imperfect
polite	impolite
possible	impossible
probable	improbable
proper	improper
pure	impure

Antonyms (mis-)

handle	mishandle
judge	misjudge
spell	misspell
understand	misunderstand
use	misuse

Antonyms (-less)

careful	careless
harmful	harmless
helpful	helpless
hopeful	hopeless
painful	painless
pitiful	pitiless
powerful	powerless
shameful	shameless
useful	useless