Definition of antonymous Antonymous

an•ton•y•mous

We found 3 definitions of antonymous from 2 different sources.

What does antonymous mean?

Adjective
antonymous - of words: having opposite meanings
		synonymous (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same
		complementary of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"
		contradictory unable to be both true at the same time
		contrary resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"
		contrastive, incompatible syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"