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indirect antonym

DEFINITIONS OF: indirect antonym

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n antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry')

Type of:
antonym, opposite, opposite word
a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
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