Category: More than you cared to know / Out on a limb It turns out that there are some word groups that form triplets rather than pairs. love - indifference - hate cold - comfortable - hot Along slightly different lines: try

Nona The Brit wrote: I would have said that love and hate are opposites but I'd love to hear why not. (yes and I'm sure most people would say salt as the opposite for sugar, as they just pair up so well in our minds, like table and chair)

My antonym to "visiting dentist" is "surfing internet" That reminds me of an anecdote I read somewhere. It was used to illustrate how many different things opposite can mean. As adults we would say the opposite of buy is sell . But a

Grammar Geek wrote: But this could turn into a fun thread: Choclate and broccoli Dentist visit and trip to the beach (By the way, as a matter of philosophy, I'd say love and indifference are better opposites than love and hate. )

Nona The Brit wrote: no they are not opposites, just different. Anyway sugar is very sweet so an opposite would need to be very sour? Sugar - lemon juice! Hi Nona, Since Ant_222's mother tongue is from the same family of languages as mine,

I can't imagine how it is possible to have an antonym of either of those words. What is the opposite of fortnight? Or the opposite of forelock? (backlock? No such word). In fact I'd say most common nouns don't have opposites. What a daft

The opposite of a Swiss citizen, of mixed French and Austrian descent would be "an ape from the jungles of Peru". What is the opposite of an "intellectual male who wears glasses and speaks impeccable English"?

The opposite of "falling asleep" is... ...to remember a bright shiny object, which you left purposefully on the table in the next room. What is the opposite of a Swiss citizen, of mixed French and Austrian descent? MrP

Downplay We can use more imagination here. For example, is the opposite of "use the television remote" get up and turn the channel by hand or is it play outside or... something else? So, what's the opposite of make dinner ?

I would have said that love and hate are opposites but I'd love to hear why not. (yes and I'm sure most people would say salt as the opposite for sugar, as they just pair up so well in our minds, like table and chair)