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Class 2 English Grammar Chapter 15 Opposite Words
The words having the opposite meaning are called antonyms. Here we will practice with some examples of words and their antonyms. Few examples are given below. Students can use these as reference and do the questions given in the exercises. Now read and learn the following antonyms.
| Words | Antonyms |
|---|---|
| Profit | Loss |
| High | Low |
| Lend | Borrow |
| Positive | Negative |
| Reward | Punish |
| Senior | Junior |
| Sour | Sweet |
| Slow | Fast |
Opposite Words Set 2
| True | False |
| Agree | Oppose |
| Above | Below |
| Broad | Narrow |
| Care | Neglect |
| Direct | Indirect |
| Fail | Pass |
| Friend | Enemy |
| Words | Antonyms |
|---|---|
| Full | empty |
| give | take |
| increase | decrease |
| maximum | minimum |
| purchase | sell |
| sharp | blunt |
| safe | unsafe |
| smooth | rough |
| Words | Antonyms |
|---|---|
| Tall | short |
| up | down |
| arrive | depart |
| accept | reject |
| busy | idle |
| come | go |
| early | late |
| forget | remember |
Find the opposite words of the following:
- 1. arrival ____________
- 2. big ____________
- 3. bright ____________
- 4. buy ____________
- 5. care ____________
- 6. clean ____________
- 7. come ____________
- 8. cruel ____________
- 9. day ____________
- 10. fast ____________
Answers:
- departure
- small
- deem
- sell
- neglect
- dirty
- go
- mercy
- night
- slow
Find out from Column III the opposites of the words in Column I and write them in column II.
Column I Column II Column III
1. ugly ________ sunrise
2. warm _________ sell
3. arrival _________ lose
4. sunset _________ beautiful
5. everywhere _________ wide
6. ancient _________ departure
Answers:
1. beautiful
2. cool
3. departure
4. sunrise
5. nowhere
6. modern
Column I Column II Column III
7. win _________ borrow
8. narrow _________ cool
9. lend _________ modern
10. buy _________ nowhere
11. sharp _________ shallow
12. deep _________ blunt
Answers:
7. lose
8. wide
9. borrow
10. sell
11. blunt
12. shallow
