When pressed, a voice will pronounce the word. English spelling is often difficult to discern whether letters are silent, so we display the international phonetic alphabet (IPA) alongside each word. If you are learning english as a second language, we recommend you familiarize yourself with the alphabet.
English is one of the few languages where spelling contests are held, because vocalizing a word and understanding the word etymology are merely hints to how an english word is spelled. We offer a separate tab with etymology because we know you most need a synonym or an antonym for a particular word. But if spelling bees are in your future, then the etymology of a word will help you understand the likely spelling. We also offer a learning vocabulary system based on the science of learning. You swipe a card to the right if you know the meaning of the word. If you are unsure about a word's meaning, you can tap or click the card to see the meaning, then swipe the card to the left to review the word again in the deck. If you are studying for the vocabulary portion of an exam, our vocabulary study game is the way to go. Word Games: The Sea Scrambler and WORDTIGO Personally, I passed many a vocab exam using this method. To play WORDTIGO you move to rotate the antonyms into the target before they enter the center circle. A thumbs-up is shown if you are correct and a thumbs-down if you are not correct. As you accumulate points, the words enter the center circle at a faster pace.
To play The Sea Scrambler I would suggest cheating with our Word Unscrambler. To unscramble letters, use the Word Unscrambler You will be given a certain number of letters and asked to create words to fill out the puzzle.
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If you like word games, you might enjoy our mobile friendly sudoku or our free online jigsaw puzzle on our sister site.In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship. For example, something that is long entails that it is not short. It is referred to as a 'binary' relationship because there are two members in a set of opposites. A member of a pair of opposites can generally be determined by the question What is the opposite of X ? The relationship between opposites is known as opposition. The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum ( hot, cold). Relational antonyms are word pairs where opposite makes sense only in the context of the relationship between the two meanings ( teacher, pupil).Ĭomplementary antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite but whose meanings do not lie on a continuous spectrum ( odd, even). These more restricted meanings may not apply in all scholarly contexts, with Lyons (1968, 1977) defining antonym to mean gradable antonyms, and Crystal (2003) warning that antonymy and antonym should be regarded with care. Opposition is a semantic relation in which one word has a sense or meaning that negates or is, in the sense of scale, distant from a related word. Other words are capable of being opposed, but the language in question has an accidental gap in its lexicon. For example, the word devout lacks a lexical opposite, but it is fairly easy to conceptualize a parameter of devoutness where devout lies at the positive pole with a missing member at the negative pole. Opposites of such words can nevertheless sometimes be formed with the prefixes un- or non-, with varying degrees of naturalness. For example, the word undevout appears in Webster's dictionary of 1828, while the pattern of non-person could conceivably be extended to non-platypus. Conversely, some words appear to be a prefixed form of an opposite but the opposite term does not exist, such as nonchalant, which appears to be non- + * chalant such a word is known as an unpaired word. Words that are incompatible create the following type of entailment (where X is a given word and Y is a different word incompatible with word X): sentence A is X entails sentence A is not Y Īn example of an incompatible pair of words is cat : dog: Opposites may be viewed as a special type of incompatibility.
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