My usage of ' abstract ' here as simply the antonym to ' concrete ' is in line with contemporary popular usage rather than early modern technical usage.
Unlike traditional hard-to-use thesauruses, online easy-to-use references reach the target information directly with alphabetically arranged synonyms or antonyms with both brief definitions and usage information.
A good command of synonyms, antonyms and other related words adds to the stylistic elegance of a text.
A negation lexical operator is implemented with the antonym relation, linking words with opposite meanings.
As we have seen, substitutions of antonyms are thought to belong to a broader category of oppositional substitutions, which also comprises discourse opposites.
And, the word "diehard" has two negative parts but turns out to be positive compared to its antonym "pushover".
Every main entry has a list first of synonyms then of antonyms.
Two other antonyms were applied to the two linguistic varieties (variables 10 and 11).
