Los Contrarios

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Los Contrarios
Utilizamos la palabra opposite para significar el contrario o reverso de algo, sobretodo los adjetivos (tall short, wide narrow) y adverbios (quickly slowly, carefully carelessly). Los verbos y las preposiciones tambin tienen contrarios (to dry - to wet, to go - to come, in - out, above - below). Los contrarios suelen ser formados por prefijos, por ej. disinterested, immoral-, inactive-, irrelevant-, unsafe (= dangerous). Estrictamente hablando, los sustantivos no tienen contrarios; solo los nombres que estn relacionados a los adjetivos pueden tener un contrario, por ej. goodness (derivado de good) - badness (derivado de bad), happiness (derivado de happy) - sadness (derivado de sad). Puede haber confusin en algunos contrarios. Depende de lo que quiere decir el interlocutor. Hay gente que dice que el "contrario" de Hombre es Mujer, pero puede ser Nio y el de mujer puede ser Nia. De todos modos Hombre es un sustantivo complemento de Mujer y viceversa. De la misma manera tenemos, King - Queen, Man Woman, Boy Girl. No son verdaderamente contrarios. De todos modos, los sustantivos Day - Night, Success - Failure, Midday - Midnight, Peace - War y Friend - Enemy son claramente ideas contrarias. Aqu tienes una lista comprensiva de CONTRARIOS (y COMPLEMENTOS).

ADJETIVO
ACCIDENTAL AFFIRMATIVE ALIVE ARTIFICIAL BAD BEAUTIFUL BLACK BOTTOM CALM CHANGEABLE CLEAR COLD COOL CRUEL DEAD DIFFERENT DIVORCED EASY EQUAL EXCITING FALSE FAT

CONTRARIO
INTENTIONAL NEGATIVE DEAD NATURAL GOOD UGLY WHITE TOP EXCITED CONSTANT CLOUDY HOT WARM HUMANE, KIND ALIVE THE SAME, EQUAL MARRIED DIFFICULT, HARD UNEQUAL, DIFFERENT BORING TRUE, CORRECT THIN

ADJETIVO
ACTIVE AFRAID ANCIENT ASLEEP BEST BIG BLUNT BRAVE CAREFUL CHEAP CLEVER COMPLICATED CORRECT DANGEROUS DEEP DIFFICULT DRY ELEMENTARY EVEN EXPENSIVE FAR FEW

CONTRARIO
LAZY BRAVE MODERN AWAKE WORST SMALL, LITTLE SHARP AFRAID CARELESS EXPENSIVE STUPID SIMPLE FALSE, WRONG SAFE SHALLOW EASY WET, HUMID, ADVANCED ODD CHEAP NEAR MANY

ADJETIVO
ADVANCED ALIKE APART

CONTRARIO
ELEMENTARY DIFFERENT TOGETHER

BETTER BITTER BORING BROAD CARELESS CLEAN CLOSED COMPULSORY COWARDLY DARK DESPERATE DIRTY EARLY EMPTY EXCITED EXTREME FAST FINAL

WORSE SWEET INTERESTING NARROW CAREFUL DIRTY OPEN VOLUNTARY BRAVE, COURAGEOUS LIGHT HOPEFUL CLEAN LATE FULL CALM MODERATE SLOW FIRST

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FIRST GENERAL GOOD HANDSOME HEAVY HILLY LAST SPECIFIC BAD UGLY LIGHT FLAT FULL GENEROUS GUILTY HARD HIGH HOPEFUL

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EMPTY MEAN INNOCENT EASY, SOFT LOW DESPERATE, HOPELESS COLD DRY GUILTY BORING, DULL SMALL ACTIVE, BUSY DARK, HEAVY SHORT HIGH DIVORCED, SINGLE MAXIMUM OLD, ANCIENT BROAD, WIDE DISTANT, FAR AWFUL, NASTY EVEN OFF RICH, WEALTHY PUBLIC SUNNY GENTLE, SMOOTH, SOFT HAPPY JUNIOR DEEP HEALTHY COMPLICATED FAST, QUICK HARD, ROUGH ORDINARY, GENERAL WEAK SHARP SILENT SINGLE SMALL SOME STRANGE STUPID HOPELESS FUNNY GENTLE HAPPY HEALTHY

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SERIOUS ROUGH SAD ILL, SICK

HOPEFUL

HORIZONTAL HUMANE ILL INTENTIONAL KIND LATE LESS LITTLE LOVELY MANY MEAN MODERATE MUCH NATURAL NEW OCCUPIED OLD POLITE PRETTY QUIET RIGHT

VERTICAL CRUEL HEALTHY, WELL ACCIDENTAL CRUEL EARLY MORE MUCH TERRIBLE FEW, SOME GENEROUS EXTREME LITTLE ARTIFICIAL ANCIENT, OLD VACANT YOUNG, MODERN, NEW RUDE UGLY LOUD, NOISY LEFT, WRONG

HOT HUMID INNOCENT INTERESTING LARGE LAZY LIGHT LONG LOW MARRIED MINIMUM MODERN NARROW NEAR NICE ODD ON POOR PRIVATE RAINY ROUGH

HUGE HUNGRY INTELLIGENT JUNIOR LAST LEFT LITTLE LOUD MAJOR MAXIMUM MINOR MORE NASTY NEGATIVE NOISY OFF OPEN POWERFUL QUICK RICH RUDE

TINY THIRSTY STUPID SENIOR FIRST RIGHT BIG, LARGE QUIET MINOR MINIMUM MAJOR LESS NICE, PLEASANT AFFIRMATIVE QUIET, SILENT ON CLOSED, SHUT WEAK SLOW POOR POLITE

RURAL SAME SERIOUS SHORT STUPID SLIM SMOOTH SOUR

URBAN DIFFERENT FUNNY LONG, TALL INTELLIGENT FAT ROUGH SWEET

SAD SENIOR SHALLOW SICK SIMPLE SLOW SOFT SPECIAL STRONG

SAFE

DANGEROUS

BLUNT NOISY MARRIED BIG, LARGE MANY NORMAL INTELLIGENT

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SUNNY THICK TIGHT TOP UGLY CLOUDY, RAINY THIN LOOSE BOTTOM PRETTY, BEAUTIFUL, HANDSOME USEFUL COMPULSORY POOR BLACK NARROW CORRECT, RIGHT WORSE YOUNG SWEET THIN TINY TOTAL URBAN

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BITTER, SOUR THICK, FAT GIANT, HUGE PARTIAL RURAL TALL THIRSTY TOGETHER TRUE USEFUL

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SMALL, SHORT HUNGRY APART FALSE USELESS

USELESS VOLUNTARY WEALTHY WHITE WIDE WRONG

VACANT WARM WELL

OCCUPIED COOL ILL

VIOLENT WEAK WET

GENTLE POWERFUL, STRONG DRY

BETTER OLD

WORST

BEST

PREPOSICIN
ABOVE BACK BELOW IN FRONT OF UNDER

CONTRARIO
BELOW IN FRONT OF ABOVE BACK, BEHIND OVER

PREPOSICIN
AFTER BEFORE FOR OUT

CONTRARIO
BEFORE AFTER AGAINST IN

PREPOSICIN
AGAINST BEHIND IN OVER

CONTRARIO
FOR IN FRONT OF OUT UNDER

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