Google trends: contextual oppositions

xkcd presents some contextual oppositions:

the opposite of 'cry'

 From 'Bottom' with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson:

        Eddie:       ...Cry did you?
        War veteran: Quite the opposite actually.
        Eddie:       What? You sucked water in through your eyes?

election opposites

John Williams of Portsmouth University has been thinking about the American election in a way that I particularly enjoy: using voting strategies to illustrate antonym terminology (describing different logical types of opposition):

Vote Clinton because she's not Trump --> binary antonyms
Vote Clinton because she's not as bad as Trump --> gradable antonyms#semantics

— John X Williams (@lexicoj0hn) 4 November 2016

(see earlier Tweet) Vote Stein, get Trump --> converse antonyms #semantics

— John X Williams (@lexicoj0hn) 4 November 2016

Are control and ecstasy opposites?

"Normally we think of control and ecstasy as opposites, but in Prince, they were just the two ends of the same breath — inhale, exhale. We need both to live."

--Julie Wittes Schlack

More incompatibles than opposites, I'd think.

RIP Prince