Word - Antonym
1. absence - presence
2. accept - refuse
3. accurate - inaccurate
4. advantage - disadvantage
5. alive - dead
6. always - never
7. ancient - modern
8. answer - question, query
9. approval - disapproval
10. approached - receded, departed
11. abundant - scarce
12. admit - deny
13. advance - retreat, retire
14. artificial - natural
15. arrival - departure
16. ascend - descend
17. attack - defense
18. attractive - repulsive
19. attention - inattention
20. asleep - awake
21. friend - enemy
22. agree - disagree
23. bad - good
24. backward - forward, onward
25. bend - straighten
26. beautiful - ugly
27. beginning - ending
28. below - above
29. bent - straight
30. big - small, little
31. blunt - sharp
32. better - worse
33. best - worst
34. blame - praise
35. bless - curse
36. bitter - sweet
37. borrow - lend
38. bravery - cowardice
39. build - destroy, demolish
40. bold- timid, meek
41. bright - dull
42. broad - narrow
43. clear - vague, cloudy
44. careful - rush, careless
45. calm - troubled
46. capable - incapable
47. captivity - freedom, liberty
48. cellar - attic
49. cheap - expensive
50. close - distant
51. clever - stupid
52. cold - hot
53. combine - separate
54. clockwise - anti-clockwise
55. correct - incorrect
56. conceal - reveal
57. come - go
58. common - rare
59. comfort - discomfort
60. courageous - coward
61. cruel - kind
62. courteous - discourteous, rude
63. cunning - simple
64. dainty - clumsy
65. danger - safety
66. dark - light
67. deep - shallow
68. decrease - increase
69. definite - indefinite
70. demand - supply
71. despair - hope
72. disappear - appear
73. disease - health
74. discourage - encourage
75. dismal - cheerful
76. doctor - patient
77. dry - wet
78. dull - clear, bright
79. dusk - dawn
80. early - late
81. easy - difficult
82. ebb - flow
83. East - West
84. economize - waste
85. encourage - discourage
86. entrance - exit
87. employer - employee
88. empty - full
89. excited - calm
90. end - beginning
91. expand - contract
92. expensive - inexpensive, cheap
93. export - import
94. exterior - interior
95. external - internal
96. fail - succeed
97. false - true
98. feeble - sturdy, strong, powerful
99. foolish - wise
100. fast - slow
101. few - many
102. famous - unknown
103. forelegs - hind legs
104. fat - thin
105. find - lose
106. first - last
107. freedom - captivity
108. fold - unfold
109. frequent - seldom
110. forget - remember
111. found - lost
112. fresh -stale
113. friend -enemy
114. fortunate - unfortunate
115. frank - secretive
116. full -empty
117. generous- mean
118. gentle - rough
119. gather - distribute
120. glad - sorry
121. gloomy - cheerful
122. giant dwarf, pygmy
123. granted refused
124. great minute, small, little
125. guardian ward
126. guest host
127. guilty innocent
128. happy sad, miserable
129. hard soft
130. harmful harmless
131. hasten dawdle
132. hate love
133. healthy unhealthy, ill, diseased
134. here there
135. heavy light
136. height depth
137. hero coward
138. hill valley
139. horizontal vertical
140. hinder aid, help
141. honest dishonest
142. humble proud
143. hunger thirst
144. imitation genuine
145. immense tiny, minute
146. imprison free
147. include exclude
148. increase decrease
149. inhabited uninhabited
150. inferior superior
151. inside outside
152. intelligent unintelligent, stupid
153. inhale exhale
154. interior exterior, outside
155. interesting uninteresting, dull
156. internal external
157. intentional accidental
158. join separate
159. junior senior
160. justice injustice
161. king subject
162. knowledge ignorance
163. laugh cry
164. lawful unlawful
165. lazy industrious, energetic
166. land sea
167. landlord tenant
168. large little, small
169. last first
170. lawyer client
171. lecturer student
172. lender borrower
173. lengthen shorten
174. left right
175. less more
176. light dark, heavy
177. like dislike, unlike
178. likely unlikely
179. leader follower
180. little large, much, big
181. lofty lowly
182. long short
183. loud soft
184. loss find, win
185. low high
186. loyal disloyal
187. mad sane
188. magnetize demagnetize
189. master servant
190. mature immature
191. maximum minimum
192. me you
193. merry mirthless, sad
194. minority majority
195. miser spendthrift
196. misunderstand understand
197. narrow wide
198. near far, distant
199. neat untidy
200. new old
201. night day
202. noisy quiet
203. North South
204. obedient disobedient
205. odd even
206. offer refuse
207. open shut
208. optimist pessimist
209. out in
210. parent child
211. past present
212. patient impatient
213. peace war
214. permanent temporary
215. please displease
216. plentiful scarce
217. poetry prose
218. possible impossible
219. poverty wealth
220. powerful feeble, weak
221. polite impolite, rude
222. private public
223. prudent imprudent
224. pretty unsightly, ugly
225. pure impure
226. qualified unqualified
227. rapid slow
228. regularly irregularly
229. rich poor
230. right wrong, left
231. rigid pliable, soft
232. rough smooth
233. satisfactory unsatisfactory
234. security insecurity
235. scatter collect
236. serious trivial
237. second-hand new
238. sense nonsense
239. shopkeeper customer
240. singular plural
241. simple complicated
242. slim thick, stout
243. solid liquid
244. sober drunk
245. speaker listener
246. sour sweet
247. sorrow joy
248. sow reap
249. stand lie
250. straight crooked
251. strong weak
252. success failure
253. sunny cloudy
254. take give
255. tall short
256. tame wild
257. teacher pupil
258. thick thin
259. tight slack, loose
260. top bottom
261. transparent opaque
262. truth untruth, lie
263. up down
264. vacant occupied
265. valuable valueless
266. victory defeat
267. virtue vice
268. visible invisible
269. voluntary compulsory