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Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post coined the word inaptonym as an antonym for "aptonym". [ 2 ] The word "euonym" ( eu- + -onym ), dated to late 1800, is defined as "a name well suited to the person, place, or thing named".
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Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
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.
a person who sells property for others (US: realtor, real estate agent) estate car a station wagon exclamation mark * (US: exclamation point) [71] ex-directory (of a telephone number) unlisted; also informally of a person "he's ex-directory", meaning his telephone number is unlisted expiry date (of a credit or debit card) expiration date ...
It should only contain pages that are Pejorative terms for people or lists of Pejorative terms for people, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Pejorative terms for people in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
Fictitious people are nonexistent people, who, unlike fictional characters, have been claimed to actually exist. Usually this is done as a practical joke or hoax, but sometimes fictitious people are 'created' as part of a fraud. A pseudonym may also be considered by some to be a "fictitious person", although this is not the correct definition.