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Lukand Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Do antonyms always exist?

Hallo

I have been looking for an answer whether antonyms can always be found. It is simple to list some examples like:

good – bad
right – wrong
bright – dark
high – low
young – old
symmetry – asymmetry
white – black

Regrettably I could not find the corresponding solution for the following words:

flatness
parallelism
perpendicularity or orthogonality
coaxiality or concentricity
eccentricity

Could anyone help me to solve the problem? I would appreciate your support.
  

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com? I found some of what you are looking for there, a couple you have to reduce to their base form - flatness - flat, for example. )

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Have you checked the website antonymsfor.com? I found some of what you are looking for there, a couple you have to reduce to their base form - flatness - flat, for example. (That website was extremely slow when I was there, it even locked up my browser for more than a minute, hopefully it was just a fluke at that time.)
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I have been looking for an answer whether antonyms can always be found.
No.
eg What is the antonym for chair?
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CliveI have been looking for an answer whether antonyms can always be found.No. eg What is the antonym for chair?
This is an obvious example. It refers to nouns. Perhaps if one could narrow the question to adjectives only would be of help?
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I have not done it yet. I will try it now.
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What's the opposite of yellow?Emotion: smile
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CliveWhat's the opposite of yellow?
Violet. Emotion: cool

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In my native spoken language building the opposite words for the ones I asked for is very simple. Adding a negative prefix is enough for. In English it does not work that way.
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flatness - waviness

parallelism - skewness

perpendicularity/orthogonality - colinearity

coaxiality/concentricity - discreteness

eccentricity - symmetry
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I am in doubt weather 'collinearity' really stands opposite to 'perpendicularity'. Let's imagine two lines crossing each other at 89 degrees for instance. They are not perpendicular for sure but they are not collinear as well. In my opinion it ought to be more general and not so specific term. Any ideas?
'Collinearity' means to be located on the same line. Therefore the opposite state would ha
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CliveI have been looking for an answer whether antonyms can always be found.No. eg What is the antonym for chair?
What is the antonym for chair. Good question...

I guess standing space?
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