For example, good and bad are antonyms of each other. Second, a number of distinctions have to be drawn within the traditional concept of 'antonymy': dictionaries of 'antonyms' are only successful in practice to the degree that their users draw these distinctions (for the most part unreflectingly)." (John Lyons, Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. An antonym is a word that means the opposite of the other word. First, synonymy and antonymy are semantic relations of a very different logical nature: 'oppositeness of meaning' ( love:hate, hot:cold, etc.) is not simply the extreme case of difference of meaning. There are two points that should be stressed, however, in this connexion. "For the better-known European languages at least, there are a number of dictionaries 'of synonyms and antonyms' available, which are frequently used by writers and students to 'extend their vocabulary' and achieve a greater 'variety of style.' The fact that such special dictionaries are found useful in practice is an indication that words can be more or less satisfactorily grouped into sets of synonyms and antonyms.
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