400 Opposite Words in English

400 Opposite Words in English

400 Opposite Words in English
400 Opposite Words in English

 Learning English is very common nowadays, and many people want to learn English, so you should not stop trying to learn because new words are added to the English language every day, so today we will teach you a new lesson. English word antonyms consist of 400 words and their opposites in the English language.

List of words and their opposites in the English language
In the list below are 400 words with their opposites:

Opposite words for beginners

1 About - Exactly

2 above - below

3 Absence - presence

4 Abundance - lack

5 Accept - refuse

6 Accidental - Intentional

7 Active - idle

8 Add - subtract

9 Admit - deny

10 adults - children

11 advanced-elementary

12 affirmative-negative

13 Afraid - brave

14 After - before

15 against - for

16 Agree - refuse

17 Like - different

18 Alive - dead

19 All-none

20 Allow - forbid

21 Already - not yet

22 Always - never

23 Amateur - professional

24 Amos - bore

25 Ancestor - descendant

26 Ancestor - descendant

27 ancient-modern

28 Angel-devil

29 Animal - human

30 Annoy-satisfying

31 Answer - ask

32 Answer-question

33 Antonym - synonym

34 Apart - together

35 Approximately - exactly 

36 Argue-agree

37 Arrival - Departure

38 Arrive - depart

39 Artificial - natural

40 Ascent - descent

41 Ask - answer

42 Sleep - wake up

43 Attack - defend

44 Attack - defense

45 Attic-cellar

46 Autumn-spring

47 Awake - asleep

48 Awful - nice

49 Back - in front of

50 Background - foreground

51 back - forward

52 Bad - good

53 Bad luck - fortune

54 Bad luck - good luck

55 interested - bore

56 Beautiful - ugly

57 Beauty-ugliness

58 before-after

59 Begin - end

60 Beginning - end

61 Behind - in front of

62 Below - above

63 Best-worst

64 Better - worse

65 big - small

66 Birth - death

67 Bitter-sweet

68 Black-white

69 Blunt-sharp

70 Body-soul

71 Bore - amuse

72 Boring - exciting

73 Borrow - lend

74 Bottom - top

75 Boy - girl

76 Brave - cowardly

77 Break-fix

78 broad-narrow

79 Brother-sister

80 Build - destroy

81 Busy-lazy

82 Buy - sell

83 Calm-excited

84 Careful - careless

85 Careless - careful

86 Catch-miss

87 Ceiling - floor

88 Cellar - aggressive

89 Center - outskirts

90 Certainly - probably

91 Changeable - constant

92 cheap - expensive

93 Child - adult

94 Children - parents

95 Clean dirty

96 Clear - cloudy

97 Clever - stupid

98 Close - open

99 Closed - open

100 Cloudy - clear

101 Cold - heat

102 Cold - hot

103 Come-go

104 Comedy - drama

105 Complicated - simple

106 Compliment - insult

107 Compulsory - voluntary

108 Connect - separate

109 Consonant - vowel

110 Constant - changeable

111 Construction - destruction

112 Continue - interrupt

113 Cool - warm

114 Correct - wrong

115 Courage - fear

116 Courageous-cowardly

117 Cowardly - brave

118 Create - destroy

119 Cruel - human

120 Cry - laugh

121 Cry - whisper

122 Damage - repair

123 Danger - security

124 Dangerous - safe

125 Dark - light

126 Daughter-son

127 Dawn - dusk

128 Day-night

129 dead alive

130 Death - birth

131 Deep - shallow

132 Defeat - victory

133 Defence-attack

134 Defend - attack

135 Delicious - awful

136 Deny - admit

137 Depart - arrive

138 Departure - arrival

139 Descendant-ancestor

140 Descent - Ascent

141 Desperate hopefully

142 Destroy - build

143 Destruction - construction

144 Devil - angel

145 Dictatorship-republic

146 Die - live

147 Different - like

148 Difficult - easy

149 Dirty - clean

150 Disease - health

151 Distant - near

152 Divide - unit

153 Division - Unity

154 Divorce - Marriage

155 Divorce - marry

156 Divorced - married

157 Domestic - foreign

158 Down-up

159 Downstairs - upstairs

160 Drama - comedy

161 Dry - humid

162 Dull - interesting

163 Dusk - dawn

164 early-late

165 East-West

166 Easy - difficult

167 Elementary - advanced

168 Emigrate - Immigrate

169 Emigration - Immigration

170 Empty - full

171 End - begin

172 End - beginning

173 Ending - beginning

174 Enemy - friend

175 Enjoy - hate

176 Enter - leave

177 Entrance - exit

178 equal - different

179 Even-odd

180 evening-morning

181 Everybody - nobody

182 Everything-nothing

183 Exactly -  approximately

184 Excited - calm down

185 Exciting - boring

186 Exclude - include

187 Exit - entrance

188 Expensive - cheap

189 Export-import

190 Exposure - shelter

191 Extreme - moderate

192 Fail - success

193 Failure - success

194 False - true

195 Far-near

196 Fast-slow

197 Fat - slim

198 Fear - Courage

199 Female-male

200 Few - many

201 Final - first

202 Find - lose

203 Finish - begin

204 Finish - start

205 First - final

206 Fix - break

207 Flat - Hilly

208 floor - ceiling

209 Follow - lead

210 For - against

211 Forbid - allow

212 Foreground - background

213 Foreign - Domestic

214 Foreigner - native

215 Forget - remember

216 Form - destroy

217 Fortune - bad luck

218 forward - backward

219 Free - arrest

220 Freeze - melt

221 Frequently - occasionally

222 Fresh - old/stale

223 Friend - enemy

224 front - rear

225 Full - empty

226 Funny-serious

227 Future - past

228 General - particular

229 Generous - mean

230 Gentle - violent

231 Gentleman - lady

232 Giant - tiny

233 Girl - boy

234 Give - take

235 go-come

236 Good - bad

237 Good luck - bad luck

238 Growing up - child

239 guest-host

240 Guilty - innocent

241 Handsome - ugly

242 Happiness-sadness

243 Happy-sad

244 Hard - easy

245 Harvest - plant

246 Hate - enjoy

247 Health - disease

248 Healthy-ill

249 Heat-cold

250 Heaven - hell

251 Heavy - Light

252 Hell - heaven

253 Here - there

254 High-deep

255 High-low

256 Hilly flat

257 Hit - miss

258 Hopefully desperate

259 Hopeless - hopeful

260 Horizontal-Vertical

261 Host - guest

262 Hot-cold

263 Huge - tiny

264 Human-animal

265 Humane - cruel

266 Humid - dry

267 Hungry-thirsty

268 Husband - wife

269 Ignore - notice

270 Ill -Health

271 Immigrate - emigrate

272 Immigration - emigration

273 Import - export

274 In - out

275 In front of – back

276 In front of - back

277 include - exclude

278 Increase - reduce

279 Innocent - guilty

280 inside - outside

281 Insult - compliment

282 Intelligent-silly

283 Intentional - accidental

284 Interesting - boring

285 Interrupt - continue

286 Junior-senior

287 Kind-cruel

288 Lack - abundance

289 Lady - gentleman

290 Land - take off

291 Land - water

292 Large - small

293 Last - first

294 Late-early

295 Laugh-cry

296 Lazy - active

297 lead - follow

298 Learn - teach

299 Leave - arrive

300 left-right

301 Lend - borrow

302 Less - more

303 Let - forbid

304 Lie - stand

305 Life - death

306 Light-dark

307 Light - heavy

308 Like - hate

309 Liquid - solid

310 Little - big

311 Little - much

312 Live - die

313 long - short

314 Lose - win

315 loser - winner

316 Loud - quiet

317 Love-hate

318 Lovely - terrible

319 low-high

320 Lower - raise

321 major - minor

322 Male-female

323 Man-woman

324 Many - few

325 Marriage - Divorce

326 Married - divorced

327 Mary - divorce

328 Master - servant

329 maximum - minimum

330 Mean - generous

331 Melt - freeze

332 Men-women

333 Mend - break

334 Mess - order

335 Midnight - noon

336 minimum - maximum

337 minor-major

338 miss - catch

339 Miss - hit

340 Moderate - extreme

341 Modern - ancient

342 Monarchy - republic

343 Moon - sun

344 More - less

345 Morning - evening

346 Mountain - valley

347 Much-little

348 Narrow-broad

349 Nasty-nice

350 Native - foreigner

351 Natural - artificial

352 Near - distant

353 negative-affirmative

354 Nephew - niece

355 Never - always

356 New - ancient

357 Nice - awful

358 Nice - nephew

359 Night-day

360 No - yes

361 Nobody - everybody

362 Noisy - quiet

363 None of - all of

364 Noon - midnight

365 Normal - strange

366 North-South

367 Not yet - already

368 Nothing - everything

369 Notice - ignore

370 Now - then

371 Occasionally - frequently

372 Occupied - vacant

373 Odd - even

374 off-on

375 Often - seldom

376 Old-modern

377 On–off

378 Open-closed

379 Open-closed

380 Opponent - supportive

381 Order - mess

382 Ordinary - special

383 Other - the same

384 out-in

385 outside - inside

386 Outskirts - center

387 over-under

388 Parents-children

389 Part-whole

390 Partial - total

391 Particular - general

392 Pass - fail

393 Past - future

394 Peace - war

395 Permit - forbid

396 Plant harvest

397 Pleasant-awful

398 Plenty-lack

399 Polite - rude

400 Poor - rich