The words acknowledge, enjoy, welcome are synonyms for "appreciate".
Antonyms are used to express the opposite of a word. Antonym definitionĪn antonym is a word, adjective, verb or expression whose meaning is opposite to that of a word. This avoids repetitions in a sentence without changing its meaning. Synonyms are other words that mean the same thing.
“I am due at a committee meeting,” he said, in a courteous but aloof manner.Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon.Even so and of all men Socrates stood most aloof from such crimes.
ALOOF ANTONYM SERIES
Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini.She stood as cold and aloof as earlier she had been warm and clinging.Peter stood there silent, aloof, detached and he appeared quite cool.Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L.Little Fay was as obstreperous as Tony was disagreeably silent and aloof.Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand.She was like the falling of this starlight, pure, aloof, and strange and gentle.In order to explain why some lexico-semantic couplings tend to form conventionalized pairs, we appeal to their ontological set-up, the symmetry of the antonyms in relation to the BOUNDARY between the meaning structures, their contextual range of use and frequency. In contrast to categorization by configuration, categorization by contentful meaning structures forms a continuum ranging from strongly related pairings as core members to ad hoc couplings on the outskirts.
This configuration (or schema) is a necessary requirement for meanings to be used as antonyms and all antonyms have equal status as members. Configurationally, this translates into a construal where some content is divided by a BOUNDARY. Form–meaning pairings are antonyms when they are used as binary opposites. We show that antonymy has conceptual basis, but in contrast to other lexico-semantic construals, a limited number of words seem to have special lexical status as dimensional protagonists. Our purpose is to synthesize these empirical investigations and provide a theoretical framework that is capable of accounting for antonymy as a mode of thought in language use and meaning-making. Based on a series of recent empirical investigations using different observational techniques, we analyze (i) the nature of the category of antonymy, and (ii) the status of its members in terms of goodness of opposition. This article offers a Cognitive Semantic approach to antonymy in language and thought.
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