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INDIRECT ANTONYM
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I. (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)
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