IMPORTANT ANTONYM LIST

absent - present abundant - scarce accept - decline, refuse accurate - inaccurate admit - deny advantage - disadvantage against - for agree - disagree

alive - dead all - none, nothing ally - enemy always - never ancient - modern answer - question antonym - synonym apart - together

appear - disappear, vanish approve - disapprove arrive - depart artificial - natural ascend - descend attic - cellar attractive - repulsive awake - asleep

calm - windy, troubled can - cannot, can't capable - incapable captive - free careful - careless cheap - expensive cheerful - sad, discouraged, dreary clear - cloudy, opaque clever - stupid clockwise - counterclockwise close - far, distant closed - ajar, open clumsy - graceful cold - hot combine - separate come - go comfort - discomfort common - rare conceal - reveal contract - expand cool - warm correct - incorrect, wrong courage - cowardice create - destroy crooked - straight cruel - kind compulsory - voluntary courteous - discourteous, rude absence presence accept refuse accurate inaccurate advantage disadvantage alive dead always never ancient modern answer question, query approval disapproval approached receded, departed abundant scarce admit deny advance retreat, retire artificial natural arrival departure ascend descend attack defense attractive repulsive attention inattention asleep awake ally enemy agree disagree bad good backward forward, onward bend straighten beautiful ugly beginning ending below above bent straight big small, little blunt sharp better worse best worst blame praise bless curse bitter sweet borrow lend bravery cowardice build destroy, demolish bold timid, meek bright dull broad narrow clear vague, cloudy careful rush, careless calm troubled capable incapable captivity freedom, liberty cellar attic cheap dear, expensive close distant clever stupid cold hot combine separate clockwise anti-clockwise correct incorrect conceal reveal come go common rare comfort discomfort courage cowardice cruel kind courteous discourteous, rude cunning simple dainty clumsy danger safety dark light deep shallow decrease increase definite indefinite demand supply despair hope disappear appear disease health discourage encourage dismal cheerful doctor patient dry wet dull clear, bright dusk dawn early late easy difficult ebb flow East West economise waste encourage discourage entrance exit employer employee empty full excited calm end beginning expand contract expensive inexpensive, cheap export import exterior interior external internal fail succeed false true feeble sturdy, strong, powerful foolish wise fast slow few many famous unknown forelegs hind legs fat thin find lose first last freedom captivity fold unfold frequent seldom forget remember found lost fresh stale friend enemy fortunate unfortunate frank secretive full empty generous mean gentle rough gather distribute glad sorry gloomy cheerful giant dwarf, pygmy granted refused great minute, small, little guardian ward guest host guilty innocent happy sad, miserable hard soft harmful harmless hasten dawdle hate love healthy unhealthy, ill, diseased here there heavy light height depth hero coward hill valley horizontal vertical hinder aid, help honest dishonest humble proud hunger thirst imitation genuine immense tiny, minute imprison free include exclude increase decrease inhabited uninhabited inferior superior inside outside intelligent unintelligent, stupid inhale exhale interior exterior, outside interesting uninteresting, dull internal external intentional accidental join separate junior senior justice injustice king subject knowledge ignorance laugh cry lawful unlawful lazy industrious, energetic land sea landlord tenant large little, small last first lawyer client lecturer student lender borrower lengthen shorten left right less more light dark, heavy like dislike, unlike likely unlikely leader follower little large, much, big lofty lowly long short loud soft loss find, win low high loyal disloyal mad sane magnetize demagnetize master servant mature immature maximum minimum me you merry mirthless, sad minority majority miser spendthrift misunderstand understand narrow wide near far, distant neat untidy obedient disobedient odd even offer refuse open shut optimist pessimist out in parent child past present patient impatient peace war permanent temporary please displease plentiful scarce poetry prose possible impossible poverty wealth powerful feeble, weak polite impolite, rude private public prudent imprudent pretty unsightly, ugly pure impure qualified unqualified rapid slow regularly irregularly rich poor right wrong, left rigid pliable, soft rough smooth satisfactory unsatisfactory security insecurity scatter collect serious trivial second-hand new sense nonsense shopkeeper customer singular plural simple complicated slim thick, stout solid liquid sober drunk speaker listener sour sweet sorrow joy sow reap stand lie straight crooked strong weak success failure sunny cloudy take give tall short tame wild teacher pupil thick thin tight slack, loose top bottom transparent opaque truth untruth, lie up down vacant occupied valuable valueless victory defeat virtue vice visible invisible voluntary compulsory vowel consonant wax wane wisdom folly within without