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Wed 6 Oct, 2004 05:02 am
which one should be selected as the most adequate synonym of DEPRIVATION
sanity
awareness
surfeit
fecundity
health
thank you
None!!!!!
Surfeit would be the best ANTONYM.
Synonym means: "word which has the same or almost the same meaning as another"
Antomym means: "word having the opposite meaning of another word"
I hope this helps!
i am so embarrassed, thank you.
You are welcome.
And - no reason to be embarrassed!!!!
Foreign languages are hard.
while surfeit does deal with an opposite subject, if surfeit were an antonym, you would be able to replace the word deprivation with it and still have a valid sentence
the other words do not have any relationship to deprivation at all! I have to wonder how you came up with that list...
You should get familiar with thesaurus.com / dictionary.com if you don't already have paper books...although the dictionary definitions are not the best, they will certainly suffice.
If you type deprivation into thesaurus.com you will get a bunch of good antonyms and synonyms.
I somewhat prefer
www.hyperdictionary.com to dictionary.com/thesaurus.com, m-w.com, etc.
...It gives synonyms on the same results page as definitions, & every word is a link to its own definition.
thank you, all of you ar so kind. in fact, i can find nonsense in 'fecundity' as the antonym of deprivation, by the way, this is one question in an exam, some of my classmates who follow the opinion of a lame-duck book deem "fecundity" as the antonym of deprivation because in some poor-qualified dictionary, the word deprivation is defined as poverty.