An antonym is a word with the opposite meaning of another word, while a synonym is a word with the same or similar meaning. The document provides examples of common word pairs that are antonyms, such as open and closed, as well as words that are synonyms of each other like big and large. Finally, it lists some online thesaurus resources that contain information about antonyms and synonyms.

1. Antonyms and synonyms
An antonym has the opposite meaning A synonym has the same or similar
to a given word. meaning to a given word.
Word Antonym Word Synonyms
thin thick
big large, bulky,
burly, capacious,
open closed
colossal, enormous,
light heavy/dark extensive,
fat, gigantic,
lose find heavyweight,
hefty, huge,
forget remember humongous,
immense, jumbo,
harsh gentle mammoth,
massive, roomy,
harmful harmless
sizable, spacious,
something nothing tremendous, vast
arrival departure
small little, diminutive,
buy sell limited, meager,
microscopic,
true false mini, miniature,
minuscule, minute,
full empty petite, pint-sized,
puny, runty, short,
guilty innocent
slight, stunted,
pretty ugly teeny, trivial,
undersized
backwards forwards
Using a thesaurus
The following thesaurus websites have useful information about antonyms and synonyms.
http://thesaurus.com
http://freethesaurus.net/
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/thesaurus/entry_index
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