Q281: What is the opposite of the word "long"?
Answer: Short
💡 Something long stretches out in length, and its opposite is short, so we say a long rope and a short rope.
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Answer: Short
💡 Something long stretches out in length, and its opposite is short, so we say a long rope and a short rope.
Answer: Evening
💡 Morning is the beginning of the day and evening is its end, while dawn, mid-morning and noon are other times of the day, not opposites of morning.
Answer: River ↔ Rivers, Mountain ↔ Mountains, Sea ↔ Seas, Dog ↔ Dogs
💡 We say river and rivers, mountain and mountains, sea and seas, and dog and dogs.
Answer: Wet
💡 Something dry has no water in it, and something wet has gotten water on it, like a dry towel and a wet towel.
Answer: Truthfulness
💡 Lying is saying something that goes against the truth, and its opposite is truthfulness, saying the truth as it is.
Answer: True ✔
💡 True. A mountain is high and rises far up, and a valley is low, so they are opposites.
Answer: Sunset
💡 The sun rises in the morning in the east and sets in the evening in the west, so the opposite of sunrise is sunset, and "rising" means the same as sunrise.
Answer: Boy ↔ Girl, Father ↔ Mother, Man ↔ Woman, Paternal uncle ↔ Paternal aunt
💡 Some words are made feminine with ta' marbutah, like 'amm and 'ammah (paternal uncle and aunt), and some have a feminine that is a different word, like boy and girl, father and mother, and man and woman.
Answer: Darkness
💡 Light lets us see things, and its opposite is darkness. "Radiance" means the same as light, so it is a synonym, not an opposite.
Answer: Absence
💡 Being present means you are in the place, and being absent means you aren't there, which is why the teacher records attendance and absence every morning.
Answer: Sister
💡 The feminine of "brother" is "sister." "Brothers" and "sisters" are plurals, and "two brothers" is a dual.
Answer: Hot ↔ Cold, Above ↔ Below, White ↔ Black, Entering ↔ Leaving
💡 Every two words with opposite meanings are opposites: hot and cold, above and below, white and black, entering and leaving.
Answer: Hen
💡 The female of the rooster is the hen, so its feminine is a different word. "Roosters" is the plural of rooster, and "two roosters" is the dual.
Answer: Easy
💡 Something difficult takes a lot of effort, and its opposite is easy, something we do without getting tired.
Answer: Rough
💡 Something smooth feels nice to touch, like silk, and its opposite is rough, like a tree trunk or sandpaper.
Answer: Near
💡 An opposite is a word with the reverse meaning: something far away takes a long distance to reach, and something near is just a few steps away from us.
Answer: Honor ↔ Humiliation, Closeness ↔ Estrangement, Ease ↔ Hardship, Approaching ↔ Turning away
💡 Some opposites: honor and humiliation, closeness (meeting and affection) and estrangement (cutting off), ease (comfortable living) and hardship, and approaching and turning away.
Answer: Fajr (dawn), then Duha (mid-morning), then Dhuhr (noon), then Asr (afternoon), then Maghrib (sunset)
💡 The day begins with Fajr (dawn), then Duha (mid-morning) after the sun has risen, then Dhuhr (noon) at midday, then Asr (afternoon), then Maghrib (sunset) when the sun goes down.
Answer: Exalted
💡 "Al-wadi'" means someone of base, low standing, and its opposite is "al-rafi'," someone exalted and of high standing. "Base" and "contemptible" mean the same as lowly.
Answer: 28
💡 The Arabic alphabet has 28 letters, beginning with alif and ending with ya', and some scholars count the hamzah as a separate letter, making it 29.