In Nouns^x, Antonyms^x

Thanks, certainly there is not mistake in my questions, I just like to know if there is such a relation name. I am doing Natural Language Processing research.such as, car -> motor vehiclethe relation between them is, motor vehicle is a hypernym of carcar -> accelerator pedalaccelerator...

thank you, Clive. I got it figured out. What I mean is actually "distant future". I searched the dictionary for antonym of shortsightedness, it looks to me that it should be "foresight", but there is also this word "foresightedness". Both are nouns, are they interchangable? Can I say "such...

Do you want cookies or chocolates? Chocolates, please!---------Good The latter. ---acceptable. (I'm not sure about this)AND anotehr quetion:http://www.answers.com/topic/latter <--it says that it's an adjective. Is it? Yes. Because I didn't get the 'tesaurus' thesaurus and atonyms antonyms

I googled too, because I wanted to see the usuage, and I got only 158,000, but still, that's far too many to be believed! But compared to 2.5 million for "too few" and 4.2 million for "too little," it's not very many. You are right - too little (noncount nouns) or too few (count nouns) is...

Languages are always losing some distinctions and gaining new ones. English lost the singular second person pronoun "thou", but we can still make the distinction between singular and plural second person when we need to, by using "you guys", "you all", etc.In the same way, we can use "literally"...

The Antonym of Sin In order to arrive at a suitable antonym for the word “sin”, one must understand the word as it is correctly used in the English language. This explanation will address the meaning of sin and its antonym in an attempt to assist in gaining a more thorough understanding. As a...

Sin does not have an antonym. There are many words like this in English. The best way to think of it is to compare sin to other nouns that are grammatically similar such as crime, murder, robbery, forgery, etc. You can commit a crime, but the opposite is ... ? Nothing, there is no opposite. ...

I think the nouns having antonyms are either abstract nouns, or nouns indicating some special attributes to the objects they denote. PS: My antonym to "visiting dentist" is "surfing internet"

There are antonyms for nouns - see the other thread. This is pretty much a continuation of questions in that thread. CJ

Lots of nouns have antonyms, more or less. At least they have what we might think of as opposites. day - night summer - winter purchase - sale zenith - nadir poverty - wealth happiness - sadness heat - cold success - failure truth - falsehood virtue - vice panic - calm I don't...