(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:50:29

An"to*nym (#), n. [Gr. a word used in substitution for another; + , , a word.]

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

[R.]

C. J. Smith.

 

© Webster 1913.

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