mindmap root((ONYM)) antonym A word that means the opposite of some other word.
🌱There's no point in telling a three-year-old that cat isn't an antonym of dog, and sun isn't an antonym of moon. 🌳Antonym includes the Greek prefix ant-, meaning "opposite" （See ANT/ANTI.）Antonyms are often thought of in pairs: hot/cold, up/down, wet/dry, buy/sell, failure/success.But a word may have more than one antonym （old/young, old/new）, especially when one of the words has synonyms （small/large, small/big, little/big）, and a word may have many approximate antonyms （adore/hate, adore/detest, adore/loathe.But although lots of words have synonyms, not so many have antonyms. What would be the antonym of pink? weather? semipro? thirty? firefighter? wax? about? consider? eponymous Of, relating to, or being the person for whom something is named.
🌱Adjectives such as Elizabethan, Victorian, and Edwardian show how the names of certain British monarchs have become eponymous for particular time periods and styles. 🌳Things as different as a bird, a river, and a drug may be named to honor someone. The Canadian city of Vancouver was named after the explorer George Vancouver; the diesel engine was named for its inventor, Rudolph Diesel; Alzheimer's disease was named after the physician Alois Alzheimer; and so on. Common eponymous terms include Ohm's law, Parkinson's Law, and the Peter Principle.And if the Beatles' famous "white album" actually has a name, it's usually called "The Beatles," which means that it's eponymous as well. Don't be surprised if eponymous turns out to be a hard word to use; lots of other people have discovered the same thing. patronymic Part of a personal name based on the name of one's father or one of his ancestors.
🌱Reading Tolstoy's vast novel, it can be helpful to know that Helene Vasilievna's second name is a patronymic, and thus that her father is named Vasili. 🌳A patronymic, or patronym （See also）PATER/PATR, is generally formed by adding a prefix or suffix to a name. Thus, a few centuries ago, the male patronymic of Patrick was Fitzpatrick （"Patrick's son", that of Peter was Peterson or Petersen, that of Donald was MacDonald or McDonald, and that of Hernando was Hernández. Today, of course, each of these is an ordinary family name, or surname. In Russia, both a patronymic and a surname are still used; in the name Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, for example, Ilyich is a patronymic meaning "son of Ilya." pseudonym A name that someone （such as a writer） uses instead of his or her real name.
🌱Hundreds of Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Bobbsey Twins novels were churned out under such pseudonyms as Franklin W. Dixon, Carolyn Keene, and Laura Lee Hope. 🌳The Greek pseudo- is used in English to mean "false," or sometimes "resembling." A pseudonym is thus a false name, or alias. A writer's pseudonym is called a pen name, as in the case of Howard O'Brien （who usually writes as "Anne Rice" but sometimes under other names）, and an actor's pseudonym is called a stage name, as in the case of Marion Morrison （"John Wayne"）. A cadre name may be used for the sake of secrecy by a revolutionary plotter such as Vladimir Ulyanov （"Lenin"） or Iosif Dzhugashvili （"Stalin"）. And in many religious orders, members adopt devotional names, as Agnes Bojaxhiu did in 1931 （"Teresa," later known as "Mother Teresa"）.