words and their opposites

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words and their opposites

Here you find a table of words and their opposites. Opposites formed by prefixes (dis-, ex-, im-, in-, irr-, un- etc.) are not listed here.
This table is not complete. Technical and geographical words are listed only in a very small amount because of clarity.

Word	Opposite
A
about	exactly
above	below
absence	presence
abundance	lack
to accept	to refuse
accidental	intentional
active	lazy
to add	to subtract
to admit	to deny
adult	child
advanced	elementary
affirmative	negative
afraid	brave
after	before
against	for
Alike similar	different
alive	dead
all	none
always	never
ancient	modern
to agree	to refuse, to argue
to allow	to forbid
already	not yet
amateur	professional
to amuse	to bore
angel	devil
animal	human
to annoy	to satisfy
to answer	to ask
answer	question
apart	together
approximately	exactly
to arrest	to free, to set free
arrival	departure
to arrive	to depart, to leave
artificial	natural

to ask	to answer
asleep	awake
to attack	to defend
attack	defence, protection
autumn	spring
awake	asleep
awful	delicious, nice, pleasant
B
back	in front of
background	foreground
backward	forward
bad	good
bad luck	fortune, good luck
beauty	ugliness
before	after
to begin	to end, to stop, to finish
beginning	end, ending
behind	in front of
below	above
best	worst
better	worse
beautiful	ugly
big	small, little
birth	death
bitter	sweet
black	white
blund	sharp
body	soul
to bore	to amuse, to be interested in
boring	exciting, interesting
to borrow	to lend
bottom	top
boy	girl
brave	cowardly, afraid
to break	to mend, to fix
broad	narrow
brother	sister
to build	to destroy
busy	lazy
to buy	to sell
C
calm	excited
careful	careless
careless	careful
to catch	to miss, to throw
ceiling	floor
cellar	attic
centre	outskirt, suburb
certainly	probably
changeable	constant
cheap	expensive
child	adult, grown-up
children	parents
clean	dirty
clear	cloudy
clever	stupid
to close	to open
closed	open
cloudy	clear, sunny, bright
cold (adjective)	hot
cold (noun)	heat
to come	to go
comedy	drama, tragedy
complicated	simple
compliment	insult
compulsory	voluntary
to connect	to separate
consonant	vowel
constant	changeable
construction	destruction
to continue	to interrupt
cool	warm
correct	false, wrong
courage	fear
courageous	cowardly
cowardly	brave, courageous
to create	to destroy
cruel	human, kind
to cry (schreien)	to whisper
to cry (weinen)	to laugh
D
to damage	to repair
danger	security, safety
dangerous	safe
dark	light
daughter	son
dawn	dusk
day	night
dead	alive
death	birth, life
deep	shallow
defeat	victory
defence	attack
to defend	to attack
delicious	awful
to deny	to admit
to depart	to arrive
departure	arrival
desperate	hopeful
to destroy	to build, to create, to form
destruction	construction
devil	angel
dictatorship	republic
to die	to live
different	alike, equal, the same
difficult	easy
dirty	clean
disease	health
distant	near
to divide	to unite
division	unity
to divorce	to marry
divorce	marriage, wedding
divorced	married
domestic	foreign
down	up
downstairs	upstairs
drama	comedy
dry	humid, wet
dull	interesting
dusk	dawn
E
early	late
east	west
easy	difficult, hard
elementary	advanced
to emigrate	to immigrate
emigration	immigration
empty	full
to end	to begin
end	beginning
ending	beginning
enemy	friend
to enjoy	to hate
to enter	to leave
entrance	exit
equal	different
even	odd
evening	morning
everybody	nobody
everything	nothing
exactly	about, approximately
excited	calm
exciting	boring
to exclude	to include
exit	entrance
expensive	cheap
export	import
exposure	shelter
extreme	moderate
F
to fail	to succeed, to pass
failure	success
false	correct, true
far	near
fast	slow
fat	slim, thin
fear	courage
female	male
few	many
final	first
to find	to lose
to finish	to begin
finish	start
first	final, last
to fix	to break
flat	hilly
floor	ceiling
to follow	to lead
to forbid	to allow, to let, to permit
for	against
foreground	background
foreign	domestic
foreigner	native
to forget	to remember
to form	to destroy
fortune	bad luck
forward	backward
to free	to arrest
to freeze	to melt
friend	enemy
front	rear
in front of	back, behind
full	empty
funny	serious
future	past, present

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