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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold, large ↔ small, thick ↔ thin, synonym ↔ antonym; Hypernyms and hyponyms are words that refer to, respectively, a general category and a specific instance of that category. For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle.
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
Interest is a feeling or emotion that causes attention to focus on an object, event, or process. In contemporary psychology of interest, [ 1 ] the term is used as a general concept that may encompass other more specific psychological terms, such as curiosity and to a much lesser degree surprise .
For example, a five-year loan of $1,000 with simple interest of 5 percent per year would require $1,250 over the life of the loan ($1,000 principal and $250 in interest).
Other contronyms are a form of polysemy, but where a single word acquires different and ultimately opposite definitions. For example, sanction—"permit" or "penalize"; bolt (originally from crossbows)—"leave quickly" or "fix/immobilize"; fast—"moving rapidly" or "fixed in place".
Interest is payment from a borrower to a lender of an amount above repayment of the amount borrowed, at a particular rate. Interest may also refer to: Interest (emotion), a feeling that causes attention to focus on an object, event, or process. Government interest, a concept in law that allows the government to regulate a given matter
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]