Timeline for Antonyms and opposites
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| Sep 25, 2022 at 14:47 | comment | added | banuyayi | "Vario"-nyms" (it's an invention) may be. "Vario-" collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/vario (Br. E.), (combining form) indicating variety or difference. | |
| Jul 6, 2022 at 22:33 | answer | added | Mitch | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 6, 2022 at 20:06 | answer | added | ermanen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 18, 2022 at 22:03 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 23:15 | comment | added | Lambie | I don't get what you are now doing here. The army besieged the town. So, you think one can say: The army relieved the town?? I don't know what allows you to posit relieve as the antonym of besiege. That's a bit over the top...Not every word has an antonym. | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 14:39 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | @Lambie Passive voice is not relevant. And Mafeking was relieved. | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 13:54 | comment | added | Lambie | Bear in mind: they besieged the town. The town was besieged. I doubt one would say the town was relieved there. | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 10:05 | answer | added | uberhaxed | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1504971121103355907 | ||
| Mar 18, 2022 at 16:56 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | @0.. If you think near antonym would be an answer, please write an answer explaining why it is. | |
| Mar 13, 2022 at 21:34 | history | edited | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 13, 2022 at 21:13 | comment | added | jsw29 | @JohnLawler, yes, but the OP already knows that; the question is seeking a term that captures one particular kind of relationship, and makes it clear that antonym is not that term. Antonym appears in the question only to provide contrast to what the question is about. | |
| Mar 13, 2022 at 19:30 | comment | added | John Lawler | Synonym and antonym are grade-school terms. The actual details of semantic opposition are much more complex. The best description of antonymy is Ken Hale's classic paper "A note on a Walbiri tradition of antonymy". It describes a real-life situation where one needs an antonym for everything -- "upside-down Walbiri". | |
| Mar 13, 2022 at 15:52 | comment | added | jsw29 | In view of he fact that so many posts on this site abuse the word antonym, this is an important question, but it may be helpful if you could give more examples of the relationship that the question is about. I fear that, in its present form, the question will lead some of the respondents to focus on the one example given, rather than think of the general concept that it is meant to be an example of. | |
| Mar 13, 2022 at 13:05 | history | asked | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |