i know that homonyms are words which sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. So what pair of homonyms in the ENGLISH language are antonyms of each other?!
2007-02-25 14:05:58 · 4 answers · asked by wondering!! 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
cleave = split apart, cleave = stick together
fast = moving rapidly, fast = unable to move
sanction = permission, sanction = prevention
These are homonyms, which are different words with the SAME spelling. I can't think of any opposite-meaning words with the same sound and different spelling, which would be homophones.
2007-02-26 00:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Beard-bared; There-their
Read-red, ; Eye-I
Wright-right,rite ; With-width
weight-wait; Pear-peer,pare,pair
Heard-herd ; Year-yeah
Heir-Air,Ere,Ear ; Seam-seem
Hear-hair,here,hare ; Share-sheer,shear
Meat-meet ; Made-maid
Waist-waste ; Wreck-reck
Leased-least ; Heart-hart
Aught-Art ; Deer-dear,dare
Ark-arc,arch ; Hail-hale
Ail-ale ; Heel-heal
High-hi; Paced-paste
Scent-cent; Scene-seen
Sail-sale ; Two-to
Raise-rays; Grate-great
Tail-tale; Wring-ring
Why-y ; Cheque-check
Train-chain; Greater-grater
Piece-peace; Pain-pane
2007-02-26 08:25:52 · answer #2 · answered by tani n 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
raise - to erect or build
raze - to level to the ground
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/raise
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/raze
2007-02-26 13:43:40 · answer #3 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ant,aunt,be,bee,but,butt, doe dough,ate,eight,feet, feat, hi,high, lye, lie,leak, leek,no,know,not,knot, run,rune,rung,wrung, ring,wring, thru,through ,to ,too,two, for,four ,fore, genes,jeans, There are probably more but, I can't think right now.
2007-02-25 22:35:20 · answer #4 · answered by ruth4526 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋