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Antonymy - one of paradigmatic relations among words which lies in the polarity of meaning:eg.kind - cruel.Antonyms are words, characterized by semantic polarity or opposite meaning.Antonyms are 2 or more words of the same language belonging to the same part of speech and to the same semantic field identical in style and nearly identical in distribution associated and often used together so that their contradictory or contrary notions. Complementary antonyms — words which present two-member semantic opposition, members of which complement each other in meaning; if one quality is negated, the other inevitably comes to the fore: eg.live - dead, male - female.
