PREFERRED TERM
1520Gradable antonymy
BROADER CONCEPT
SCOPE NOTE
- Gradable or scalar antonymy describes pairs of words that are contrasted with respect to their degree of possession of a certain semantic property. Each term represents or stands for an end-point (or extreme) on a scale (e.g., of temperature, size, height, beauty, etc.); between those end-points there are other intermediate points.
SOURCE
- Saeed 2017
- Ξυδόπουλος 2008
CONTRIBUTOR
- Katsiadakis Helen (AA)
CREATOR
- Karasimos Athanasios (AA)
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Διαβαθμισμένη αντωνυμία
Greek
Scalar antonymy
URI
https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/1520
