cloud appeared.- White.
2.without milk, ex: Two black coffees, please.- White. 3.of a race that has dark skin, ex: Many black people emigrated to Britain it the 1950s.- White.
Active - adj. The word has six meanings, but only two of them have antonyms: 1.doing things; lively, ex: She takes an active part in local politics.;-Inactive.;
2.of the form of a verb whose subject is the person or thing that performs the action (grammar), as in He was driving the car and the children have eaten the cake.- Passive.
Down - adv. The word has nine meanings, but only four of them have antonyms:
1.from the upright position to a lower level, ex: He bent down to pick up his gloves. - up.;
2.indicating a lower place or state, ex: The bread is on the third shelf down.- Up.;
3.to be read from top to bottom, not from side to side, ex: I can't do 3 down.- Across.;
4.away from a university (Brit), ex: going down at the end of the year.- Up.
For - prep. The word has seventeen meanings, but only one of them have antonyms:
1. in defence or support of somebody / something, ex: I'm all for pubs staying open all day.- Against.
2.3 Using antonyms pair in proverbs and sayings
main field of use pairs of antonyms is proverbs and sayings. Proverbs are phenomenon of thout, language, art. The main sense of proverbs and sayings is not the information given but artistic pattern, meaning content. Some examples:
The time passes away but sayings remain.
After a storm comes fair weather, after sorrow comes joy.
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
There «d be no good fortune if misfortune hadn» t helped.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Breaking is not making.
Knowledge is light, ignorance is darkness.
You started speaking with delight and finished with a sorry sight!
Native dogs are fighting here, foreign ones should not interfere.
Greet him according to the clothes, take leave according to what he knows. [59]
Thus, based on the examples given above, we can say that antonyms are resource of a category opposition.
We have found a confirmation that antonyms can be expressed:
· as words with different roots;
· as words, which are formed with negative prefixes.
Almost every word can have one or more synonyms. Comparatively few have antonyms. The main field of use pairs of antonyms is proverbs and sayings. The main sense of proverbs and sayings is not the information given but artistic pattern, meaning content. We have found a confirmation that antonyms can be expressed: as words with different roots and as words, which are formed with negative prefixes.
The main criterion of antonyms is steady using their pairs in contexts. Antonym pairs thread Modern English. However, antonyms imply polarity of one of the sema...
