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100 Antonyms Every Adult Should Know

April 26, 2026

100 Antonyms Every Adult Should Know

No. Item Definition
1. accept reject
2. advance retreat
3. alive dead
4. ancient modern
5. arrive depart
6. ascend descend
7. attack defend
8. awake asleep
9. begin end
10. best worst
11. big small
12. blunt sharp
13. bold timid
14. borrow lend
15. buy sell
16. calm agitated
17. careful careless
18. cheap expensive
19. clean dirty
20. clear cloudy
21. close open
22. dangerous safe
23. deep shallow
24. difficult easy
25. diminish increase
26. domestic foreign
27. dry wet
28. early late
29. empty full
30. enter exit
31. expand contract
32. export import
33. fail succeed
34. false true
35. fast slow
36. fat thin
37. few many
38. find lose
39. flexible rigid
40. float sink
41. forbid allow
42. forget remember
43. forward backward
44. frequent rare
45. fresh stale
46. friend enemy
47. gather scatter
48. generous stingy
49. gentle harsh
50. give take
51. gloomy cheerful
52. graceful clumsy
53. happy sad
54. heavy light
55. high low
56. honest dishonest
57. hostile friendly
58. humble proud
59. ignore notice
60. include exclude
61. increase decrease
62. inferior superior
63. knowledge ignorance
64. laugh cry
65. legal illegal
66. less more
67. loose tight
68. loss gain
69. loud quiet
70. love hate
71. major minor
72. mature immature
73. maximum minimum
74. move stay
75. narrow wide
76. natural artificial
77. near far
78. partial complete
79. patient impatient
80. permanent temporary
81. plentiful scarce
82. polite rude
83. poor rich
84. possible impossible
85. present absent
86. private public
87. protect endanger
88. push pull
89. raise lower
90. raw cooked
91. receive send
92. rough smooth
93. unite divide
94. urban rural
95. useful useless
96. vacant occupied
97. vanish appear
98. victory defeat
99. visible invisible
100. wrong right

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