Methods and strategies to find antonyms of words have been discussed in this article, along with example problems.
An antonym is a word opposite in meaning to another word. Antonyms can be of any part of speech. However, the words have to be of the same part of speech in order to be antonyms of each other. Not all words can have an antonym, as some words such as a chair, bottle, etc. have neutral meanings and hence have no opposite word.
Questions on antonyms consist of a stem word and four or five option words. The test-taker is expected to choose the word from the options which is farthest in meaning to the given word.
The instructions on antonym questions include, but are not limited to:
Let us look at some examples to understand the solving of antonyms better-
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