Saying the opposite

When we are talking about antonyms what are we actually talking about?Antonyms are words opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good ).Let us watch together! Let us now see what it looks like in practice! What parts of speech are these words? Adjectives fake tiny guilty safe sincere mature kind Verbs appear encourage improve admit like nouns success happiness Match together antonyms. fake genuine, real, authentic like dislike, hate, loathe, can't stand, can't bear, detest tiny big, large, huge, enormous, massive, immense happiness unhappiness, sadness, misery, sorrow, discontent guilty not guilty, innocent, blamesess safe unsafe, insecure, dangerous, risky, hazardous admit deny, contradict improve get worse, worsen, deteriorate, decline sincere insincere, dishonest success failure, disaster, flop mature immature, childish, young, youthful encourage discourage, dishearten, criticize, undermine kind unkind mean, stingy, tight appear disappear, vanish Antonyms can sometimes be formed with a negative prefix.-in, -im, -ir, -dis, -il, -un credible uncredible discredible incredible honest unhonest dishonest inhonest responsible disresponsible irresponsible unresponsible probable improbable inprobable unprobable believable disbelievable inbelievable unbelievable legal dislegal illegal unlegal Complete the conversation with the correct form of the words. A: Gary's a really successful businessman.B: Yeah, but he's a complete failure as a family man. He never sees his children.A: My grandad's so generous, he gives me a $20 note every time I see him.B: Lucky you! My grandad's famed for his meanness. A fiver every birthday.A: Well, Henry, I'm pleased there's been some improvement in your behaviour this term, but unfortunately your work has got worse.A: Our teacher is always criticizing us.B: I know, it's not fair, he should give us more encouragement if she wants us to work. Match the words and their meanings. abused used cruelly or badly disused not used any more unused not ever used misued used in the wrong way overused used too much underused not used enough And if you want to learn even more words I would recommend seeing this video. Those words that you don't know please write down, so you can remember and maybe use them more