SYNONYM, ANTONYM & HYPONYM

SYNONYM, ANTONYM & HYPONYM

·         SYNONYM

Synonym are words that have the same or very similiar meaning. All words can have a synonym. Nouns, verb, adjective, adverbs and prepositions can have the synonym as long as both words are the same of speech.

Example of synonym :

Adjective : beutiful, pretty, great,amazing,lovely,gorgeous

Nouns : House, home, dweling, residence

Verbs : meet, see, descry, go to meet

Preposition: out, outside,

·         ANTONYMS

Antonyms are word that have opposite meanings. For example, the antonym of long is short. Often words will have more than one antonym but as with synonyms it depends on the context. For instance, the word warm could have the antonym cool or chilly. In order to choose the correct antonym, you have to look at all meanings and how the word is used. Cool can be mean staylishas well as chilly so the word cool may not the best choice.

Types of antonym :

Grades of antonym are word pairs that have variations between the two opposite. For example, big and little are antonyms but there are a lot of changes before you getto the opposite meaning. Such as:

          Big, huge, bulky, full-size, slight, petite, little and other example :

a.   Rich and Poor

b.   Beauty and ugly

c.    Good and bad

d.   Late and early

e.    Days and nights

f.    Wet and dry

Relational antonyms are pairs that have a relationship. Each wouldn’t exist without the other. There can’t be aparent without a child ot it’s either all or nothing. Other example include:

a.   Servant and master

b.   Borrow and lend

c.    Come and go

d.   Parent and child

Complimentary antonyms are word pairs that have no degree of meaning. There are only two opposite possibilities. Example :

a.   Leave and arrive

b.   Question and answers

c.    Single and married

d.   Beore and after

e.    Sister and brother

·         Adding a Prefix

Sometimes an antonym can be easily made by adding a prefix. Example of antonyms that were made by adding the preffix ‘un’ are :

a.   Like and unlikely

b.   Able and unable

By adding the prefix “non” you can make these pairs:

a.   Entity and nonentity

b.   Conformist and nonconformist

·         HYPERNYM AND HYPONYM

Hypernym is a linguistics term for a word whose meaning includes the meanings of other words. In other word.  Meanwhile hyponym is in liguistics, a specific term used to designate member of a class. In other words hypernyms are general words and hyponyms are subdivisions of more general words. It means, it describe what happen when we say ‘an X is a kind of Y’ like ‘ an eagle is akind of bird, or simple an eagle is a bird’

Example :

1.    Fish (hypernym) = lion fish, nemo, childish ( hyponym)

2.    Color (hypernym)= red, white, black, pink (hyponym)

3.    Vegetable( hypernym)= broccoly, letuce, spinach, carrot (hyponym)

4.   Subject lesson (hypernym)= mathemathic, english,social

So, that all the explanation about synonym, antonym and hyponym. Wish that useful..