In Antonyms^x, Nouns^x

No, I'm thinking of the adjective, which is derived from the noun. Maybe it's a US v UK thing, but in Britain you might say "Alonso's car is moving at a very pedestrian pace", meaning slowly.

LeicesterLad, You must be thinking about the noun 'pedestrian' (one who walks on foot). These are, however, all adjectives in the list. 'Pedestrian', in its adjectival form, means 'common', 'ordinary'. Therefore, (D) is the obvious antonym.

(A noun cannot be the antonym of an adjective, so the relationship 'frank: secretiveness' is not simply that of opposites.) I know, CJ. I mean if we disregard the part of speech, they are opposite. I thought A would be closer. But I didn't choose it becuase "theft" suggests an act...

"frank" suggests "willing to reveal" "secretive" suggests "unwilling to reveal" These two are adjectives. The corresponding nouns are "frankness" and "secretiveness", "the quality or property of being frank", "the quality or property of being secretive". (A noun cannot be the antonym...

Hello Hanuman "Fishing" is a noun meaning action of fish catching. It has been used as a noun since 1300. "Fishing rod" is a noun-noun phrase and it was originally hyphenated as "fishing-rod" "Interesting" is an adjective. Its antonym is "uninteresting". You can say "uninteresting...

I disagree with Hypnopaedic that each word has an antonym. I believe that in every part of speech there are words which have NO antonyms; let’s take adjectives: what would be an antonym to “wooden”? made of stone? cardboard? What’s the opposite of “mathematical”? is it physical or geological? We...

Rommie and Chameleon, your posts are very impressive!! Unfortunalely I can not say that I really understand them, so in an effort to help answer your question, and for the benefit of any other readers who may also not have understood your postings I consulted the 'Hyperdictionary"...

"two same words with different meaning?" Most words have various meanings. You must convey or perceive a word's meaning through context. Here is just one example out of many thousands of mulitiple meanings words: bear (bâr) verb bore (bôr, bor) borne (bôrn, born) or born (bôrn)...

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