Is there a term for a word that doesn't use a common opposite?
I was thinking about common word pairs like open and close, on and off, and warm and cold. The pair of opposites is formed by two distinct words.
But other common pairings invoke the use of a modifier, such as active and inactive. One can use opposites like idle or quiescent, but the common opposite is the modified original. Is there a term for word pairs that are like that?
(Context: I collaborate in Ux design, and it seems that when we need to label two states, it's preferable to use pairs that are distinct (open/close), rather than pairs that are less distinct (active/inactive), because they differentiate better. So I was curious if there was a way to label pairs that are more distinct rather than, er, uh, indistinct?).
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I was thinking about common word pairs like open and close, on and off, and warm and cold. The pair of opposites is formed by two distinct words.
But other common pairings invoke the use of a modifier, such as active and inactive. One can use opposites like idle or quiescent, but the common opposite is the modified original. Is there a term for word pairs that are like that?
(Context: I collaborate in Ux design, and it seems that when we need to label two states, it's preferable to use pairs that are distinct (open/close), rather than pairs that are less distinct (active/inactive), because they differentiate better. So I was curious if there was a way to label pairs that are more distinct rather than, er, uh, indistinct?).
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I was thinking about common word pairs like open and close, on and off, and warm and cold. The pair of opposites is formed by two distinct words.
But other common pairings invoke the use of a modifier, such as active and inactive. One can use opposites like idle or quiescent, but the common opposite is the modified original. Is there a term for word pairs that are like that?
(Context: I collaborate in Ux design, and it seems that when we need to label two states, it's preferable to use pairs that are distinct (open/close), rather than pairs that are less distinct (active/inactive), because they differentiate better. So I was curious if there was a way to label pairs that are more distinct rather than, er, uh, indistinct?).
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I was thinking about common word pairs like open and close, on and off, and warm and cold. The pair of opposites is formed by two distinct words.
But other common pairings invoke the use of a modifier, such as active and inactive. One can use opposites like idle or quiescent, but the common opposite is the modified original. Is there a term for word pairs that are like that?
(Context: I collaborate in Ux design, and it seems that when we need to label two states, it's preferable to use pairs that are distinct (open/close), rather than pairs that are less distinct (active/inactive), because they differentiate better. So I was curious if there was a way to label pairs that are more distinct rather than, er, uh, indistinct?).
terminology antonyms
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