English Language

Antonyms

6,385 Questions
All Descriptive Adjective Antonyms 2246 Action Verb Antonyms 1544 Abstract Noun Antonyms 1250 Gradable vs. Binary Opposites 325 Connotation Reversals 314 Homograph / Context-Dependent Opposites 230 Root-Based Deceptive Opposites 228 Phrasal Verb Antonyms 34

Antonyms Questions

Multiple choice

Which of the following is the opposite in meaning to “convenient” as used in the passage above?

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option from the list according to the corresponding number in the passage.

The hen bird was about to lay, and she asked her mate whether he could find her some place convenient for laying eggs. He asked, whether that was not a very good place for the purpose. She answered that it was not, for it was continually overflowed by the tide. Then he asked emotionally, whether he had become so feeble that the eggs laid in his house could be carried away by the sea. The hen bird laughed and said that there were some considerable defferences between him and the sea.

  1. benefit

  2. advantage

  3. unfit

  4. fit
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Correct option is (3).

Multiple choice

What would be the phrase opposite in meaning to ‘interfered with’ in line 3?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

1. The period 1813 -1823 also saw the rise of several missionary institutions all over the country and
2. the establishment of the famous Hindu College at Calcutta. They   confined their help to
3.  encouraging  traditional learning and took no step which might have interfered with the existing
4.  system of study. In 1824, The Court of Directors virtually accepted the doctrines of Bentham and Mill
5. whose central theme was that education should be officially encouraged. Under the
6.  encouragement given by the official policy and the interest already generated locally in the
7.  study of English literature and economic doctrines, a widespread knowledge came into being.
8.  Our freedom movement flowered under the liberal ideas that resulted from the study of English poets and writers.

  1. neglect of

  2. evaded by

  3. pulled off

  4. held back
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

To interfere is to intervene into something and the opposite would be to withdraw or pull off from some matter.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is the opposite in meaning to ‘fallen’ as used in the passage?

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.

It was October. The pink-white leaves of the flowering dogwood covered (1) the entire yard. The clumps (2) of glossy red fruits, peaping (3) from gaps between its leaves, made the tree look like a giant sundae. A flock of bluebirds flying over the town’s sky couldn’t resist (4) the temptation and nosedived for the tree. The tree looked washed (5) in pink, white and red, with busy blue dots moving all over. The bluebirds were back again. The little six inch birds ate grasshoppers, beetles and caterpillars. But, the fruits of the flowering dogwood surely (6) topped their list of favourites. Their numbers had fallen (7) recently, and may be the starlings and sparrows were giving them a hard time to find nests. But everybody in the town started putting out nesting boxes - and that seems to have worked pretty well (8). The bluebirds have returned to the town.

  1. stood up

  2. increased

  3. moved

  4. dropped
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Fallen here is related to decrease and the only option that is opposite to it is ‘increased’.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is the opposite in meaning to 'significant' as used in the passage?

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.

All animal life on planet Earth depends on sufficient (1) supply of oxygen for its day-to-day (2) survival. The trees that now just dot (3) our landscapes here and there, once heavily blanketed (4) Earth’s surface, but still are able to provide a large porsion (5) of oxygen supply. Through the process of photosynthesis, trees take in (6) carbon dioxide from surrounding air and in return create a sizeable amount of oxygen. Human beings, who cut down large number of trees to create land, shelter and energy, however, pose the most significant (7) threat to survival (8) of worldwide population of trees.

  1. slight

  2. minor

  3. noteworthy

  4. inconsequential
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

'Significant' means something important. So the option which is opposite in meaning is 'inconsequential', which means no consequences. Whereas, important things have consequences. Therefore, (4) is the correct option here.

Multiple choice

Which is the antonym of: TACITURN

  1. timid

  2. reticent

  3. loquacious

  4. withdrawn
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Taciturn means reserved or uncommunicative in speech. The antonym is loquacious, which means tending to talk a great deal.

Multiple choice

Which is the antonym of: SUPERFLUOUS

  1. nonessential

  2. unnecessary

  3. required

  4. redundant
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Superfluous means unnecessary or more than is required. Required is the direct opposite, as it implies something is essential or needed.

Multiple choice

Which is the antonym of: RIFE

  1. abundant

  2. prevalent

  3. widespread

  4. scarce
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Rife means widespread or abundant, especially of something undesirable. Scarce is the opposite, meaning rare or in short supply.

Multiple choice

Which is the antonym of: QUAINT

  1. charming

  2. contemporary

  3. sweet

  4. picturesque
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Quaint means attractively unusual or old-fashioned. Contemporary is the opposite, as it refers to something modern or current.