complementary antonym

/K AA0 M P L AH0 M EH1 N T R IY0 AE0 N T AH0 N IH0 M/
noun
  1. 1

    (linguistics, philosophy, semantics) One of a pair of words wherein affirmative use of one entails the negative of the other with no gradability.

  2. 2

    (semantics) A term whose meaning is the complement of another term, in an either-or fashion, such as mortal in relation to immortal.

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