INDIRECT ANTONYM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indirect antonym mean? 

• INDIRECT ANTONYM (noun)
  The noun INDIRECT ANTONYM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: INDIRECT ANTONYM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIRECT ANTONYM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("indirect antonym" is a kind 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)