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What is an antonym?

What is an antonym? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
    1. A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.
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The students take turns at throwing the dice, and they must provide a synonym, antonym, or definition of the word that turns up.
Stiller understands that he will never be Cary Grant — that he is the antonym of suave.
By and by, which was once a synonym, has become an antonym of immediately, meaning at some future time.
It seems reasonable to suppose that the term 'profane' is coloured by associations with its antonym.
In strict usage, daily is the antonym of nightly as diurnal is of nocturnal.
For most of my life, I've gone so far in the opposite direction that if I knew the antonym for hypochondria I'd employ it now.

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