A favorite with children for over fifty years, experience the excitement with the four orphaned Alden children as they roam the countryside finding new mysteries to solve.
antonym - a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'. opposite, opposite word.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings. Where the two words have definitions that lie on a continuous spectrum of meaning, they are gradable antonyms.