'nice' is the opposite of 'dick'

From Terrible Maps













This is not the first opposite that's been recorded for Indonesia on this blog. Have a look at this one.

Google trends: contextual oppositions

xkcd presents some contextual oppositions:

oh no - not oh no

Dinosaur Comics has a guest artist and a comic I love:

big little large small great

Every work on antonymy needs a big ol' section on why big/little are 'better' antonyms than large/little. I know, I've written more than one.

Too bad I didn't have xkcd's handy guide!

the blog opposite

Arnold Zwicky has recently written a couple of post relating to antonymy on his blog. Always worth reading AZ, whose own initials seem a bit oppositey.


11/21/18: One Big Happy analyses:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/21/obh-analyses/

12/5/18: uncle-o-nym:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/05/uncle-o-nym/

electric/acoustic

Love it.

10 year old just asked if he should brush his teeth “electric or acoustic” 🤟🏻

— Lauren Laverne (@laurenlaverne) 3 September 2018