500+ English Opposite Words

500+ English Opposite Words

After – before 

Add-Subtract

Advance – Retreat

Alive – Dead All – None

Always – Never

Absent – Present

Accept-Reject

Accurate – Inaccurate

Ancient Modern

Answer-Question

Appear Disappear

Asleep – Awake

Attack – Defend

Attractive – Unattractive tive

Awful – Wonderful

Bad-Good

Beautiful – Ugly

Before – After Begin-End

Best – Worst

Big-Small

Birth – Death

Bitter – Sweet

Black – White

Blunt – Sharp

Bold – Timid

Bottom-Top Boy-Girl

Brave – Cowardly Bright – Dull

Broad – Narrow

Buy-Sell

Busy – Idle

Calm-Nervous

Can – Can’t

Careful – Careless

Cautious-Reckless

Cheap – Expensive

Clean – Dirty

Clear – Cloudy

Clever-Foolish

Close – Open

Cold – Hot Come-Go

Comedy-Tragedy

Comfort-Discomfort

Front – Back

Complicated-Simple

Connect – Disconnect

Constant-Variable

Continue-Stop

Cool-Warm

Correct – Incorrect

Courage – Fear

Create – Destroy

Cruel – Kind

Cry-Laugh

Curly – Straight

Danger-Safety

Dark – Light

Day – Night

Deep – Shallow

Demand – Supply

Despair – Hope

Destroy – Build

Difficult – Easy

Dirty – Clean

Deep – Shallow

Disappear – Appear

Divide – Unite

Dry-Wet

Early – Late

East-West

Easy – Hard

Empty – Full

Enter- Exit

Even – Odd

Everybody – Nobody

Everything-Nothing

Excited – Bored

Expand-Shrink

Fail-Succeed

False-True

Far – Near

Fast – Slow

Fat – Thin

Feast – Famine

Few – Many

Find – Lose

Finish-Start

First-Last

Float – Sink

Follow – Lead

Foolish – Wise

Forget-Remember.

Forward – Backward

Free-Captive

Friend – Enemy

Full – Empty

Gain-Loss

Generous – Stingy

Gentle – Rough

Give-Take

Glad-Sad

Go-Stop

Good-Bad

Grow – Shrink

Guilty – Innocent

Hard-Soft

Harsh -Gentle

Hate – Love

Healthy – Sick

Heaven – Hell

Heavy-Light

Help-Hinder

Here – There

High-Low

Hinder – Help

Hit-Miss

Hold – Release

Honest-Dishonest

Hope – Despair

Hot – Cold

Huge – Tiny

Humid – Dry

Hungry – Full

Idle-Busy

Ignore-Notice

Important – Unimportant

Impossible-Possible

In-Out 

Increase – Decrease

Innocent – Guilty

Inside – Outside

Up-Down

Impossible-Possible

Interest – Boredom

Interesting – Boring

Join – Separate

Joy – Sorrow

Junior – Senior

Kind – Cruel

Known – Unknown

Laugh – Cry

Lazy – Active

Lead – Follow

Left – Right

Less – More

Lie – Truth

Light – Dark

Like – Dislike

Little – Much

Live – Die

Lose – Win

Loud – Quiet

Love – Hate

Low – High

Major – Minor

Man – Woman

Many – Few

Married – Single

Master – Servant

Maximum – Minimum

Melt – Freeze

Men – Women

Messy – Neat

Minor – Major

Miss – Catch

Modern – Ancient

More – Less

Morning – Evening

Mountain – Valley

Narrow – Wide

Near – Far

Neat – Messy

Negative – Positive

Never – Always New – Old

Night – Day 

Noisy-Quiet

North – South

Nothing – Everything

Then – before 

Obey – Disobey

Odd-Even

Off- On

Old – Young

On-Off

Open – Closed

Opposite-Same

Optimist – Pessimist

Out – In

Over – Under

Pain – Pleasure

Pass – Fail

Past Future

Peace – War

Permit – Forbid

Pick – Drop

Plenty – Lack

Polite – Rude

Poor – Rich

Present – Absent

Pretty – Ugly

Private Public

Pull – Push

Punish – Reward

Push – Pull

Question – Answer

Quick – Slow

Quiet – Loud

Raise – Lower

Real – Fake

Reject – Accept

Remember – Forget

Rest – Work

Rich – Poor

Right – Wrong

Rise – Fall

Rough – Smooth

Rude – Polite

Sad – Happy

Safe – Dangerous

Same – Different

Satisfy – Dissatisfy

Scream – Whisper

Secure – Insecure

Sell – Buy

Senior – Junior

Sensible – Foolish

Sharp – Blunt

Short – Long

Shout -Whisper

Shrink – Expand

Sick – Healthy

Simple – Complicated

Single – Married

Sink – Float

Slow – Fast

Small – Big

Smile – Frown

Soft – Hard

Some – None

Sorrow – Joy

South – North

Stand – Sit

Start – Finish

Stop – Go

Straight – Curly

Strong – Weak

Stupid – Clever

Subtract-Add

Success – Failure

Succeed – Fail

Summer – Winter

Sunrise – Sunset

Sunny – Cloudy

Sweet – Sour

Tall – Short

Take – Give

Teach – Learn

Tidy – Messy

Tight – Loose

Tiny – Huge

Together – Apart

Top – Bottom

Tragedy – Comedy

True – False

Ugly – Beautiful

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