20 Easy Antonym Words
Learning antonyms significantly expands one’s vocabulary. By understanding a word and its opposite, you effectively double the number of words you can use to express yourself. For instance, knowing both “hot” and “cold” allows for more versatile descriptions of temperature:
- Bend – Straight
- Beloved – Hateful
- Belated – Lately
- Authentic – Spurious
- Attain – Lose
- Blockhead – Wise
- Beneficial – Harmful
- Benevolent – Malevolent
- Bitter – Sweet
- Brutal – Kind
- Broaden – Shorten
- Brief – Details
- Calamity – Blessing
- Calm – Excited
- Economical – Wasteful
- Elaborate – Brief
- Ungraceful – Elegant
- Include – Eliminate
- Unknown – Eminent
- Secure – Endanger
- Inactivity – Endeavor
- Decrease – Enhance
- Enlighten – Darken
- Enmity – Friendship
- Small – Enormous
- Disparity – Equality
- Eradicate – Preserve