100+ Examples of Synonyms and Antonyms For Kids

Englishbix brings you the examples of synonyms for elementary grade kids. Parents and teachers can use these words to help their children learn similar meaning words.

What are Synonyms?

Synonym is a term, for any word or phrase,(in any language) which has the same meaning, or may differ slightly. For instance run is a word and sprint, race, dart, are it’s synonyms and vice versa.  To understand the difference between synonym and homonym, is important.

Example– Expire(lapse; die) is a homonym and the two ‘expire’ will have different synonyms.

Examples of Synonyms for Kids

Following is a list of examples of synonyms for elementary grade kids to practice.

WordSynonyms
Comeadvance, approach, arrive, near, reach
Godepart, disappear, fade, move, proceed, recede, travel
Rundash, escape, elope, flee, hasten, hurry, race, rush, speed, sprint
Hurryrush, run, speed, race, hasten, urge, accelerate, bustle
Hideconceal, cover, mask, cloak, camouflage, screen, shroud, veil
Moveplod, go, creep, crawl, inch, poke, drag, toddle, shuffle
Doexecute, enact, carry out, finish, conclude, effect, accomplish, achieve
Havehold, possess, own, contain, acquire, gain, maintain, believe, bear, beget, occupy, absorb, fill, enjoy
Useemploy, utilize, exhaust, spend, expend, consume, exercise
Getacquire, obtain, secure, procure, gain, fetch, find, score, accumulate, win, earn, rep
Keephold, retain, withhold, preserve, maintain, sustain, support
Putplace, set, attach, establish, assign, keep, save, set aside, effect, achieve, do, build
Takehold, catch, seize, grasp, win, capture, acquire, pick, choose, select
Makecreate, originate, invent, beget, form, construct, design, fabricate
Breakfracture, rupture, shatter, smash, wreck, crash, demolish, atomize
Destroyruin, demolish, raze, waste, kill, slay, end, extinguish

Table 2

Killslay, execute, assassinate, murder, destroy, cancel, abolish
Cutgash, slash, prick, nick, sever, slice, carve, cleave
Falldrop, descend, plunge, topple, tumble
Flysoar, hover, flit, wing, flee, waft, glide, coast, skim, sail, cruise
Decidedetermine, settle, choose, resolve
Helpaid, assist, support, encourage, back, wait on
Mark label, tag, price, ticket, impress, effect, trace
Planplot, scheme, design, draw, map, diagram, procedure
Showdisplay, exhibit, present, note, point to, indicate, explain
Beginstart, open, launch, initiate, commence, inaugurate, originate
Endstop, finish, terminate, conclude, close, halt
Biglarge, enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal
Littlesmall, tiny, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature
Newfresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent
Oldfeeble, frail, ancient, weak, aged, used, worn
Falsewrong, fake, fraudulent, counterfeit, spurious
Trueright, accurate, proper, precise, exact, valid
Fastquick, rapid, speedy, fleet, hasty, snappy

What are Antonyms?

Antonym is a term, for any word or phrase,(in any language) which has the opposite meaning to that of a word. For instance hard is a word and simple, easy, are it’s antonyms and vice versa.

Examples of Antonyms for Kids

Following is a list of examples of antonyms for elementary grade kids to learn.

Table – 1

happy – sadhard – easy
hard – softharmful – harmless
harsh – mildhate – love
haves – have-nothealthy – diseased, ill, sick
heaven – hellheavy – light

Table – 2

help – hinderhere – there
hero – cowardhigh – low
hill – valleyhinder – help
honest – dishonesthorizontal – vertical
hot – coldhumble – proud
ill – healthy, wellimmense – tiny, small

Table – 3

important – trivialin – out
include – excludeincrease – decrease
inferior – superiorinhale – exhale
inner – outerinside – outside
intelligent – stupid, unintelligentintentional – accidental

Table – 4

interesting – boringinteresting – dull, uninteresting
interior – exteriorinternal – external
join – separatejunior-senior
just – unjustjustice – injustice
knowledge – ignoranceknown – unknown

Table – 5

landlord-tenantlarge – small
last – firstlaugh – cry
lawful – unlawful, illegallazy – industrious
leader-followerleft – right
lend -borrowlengthen – shorten

Table – 6

lenient – strictless – more
light – dark, heavylike – dislike, hate
likely – unlikelylimited – boundless
little – biglong – short
loose – tightlose – find

Table – 7

loss – winloud – quiet
love – hatelow – high
loyal – disloyalmad – happy, sane
major – minormany – few
mature – immaturemaximum – minimum
melt-freezemerry – sad
messy – neatminor – major
minority-majoritymiser – spendthrift
misunderstand – understandmore – less
nadir – zenithnarrow – wide
near – far, distantneat – messy, untidy
never – alwaysnew – old
night – daynighttime – daytime
no – yesnoisy – quiet
none – somenorth-south
obedient – disobedientodd-even
offer – refuseold – new
old – youngon – off
open – closed, shutopposite- same, similar
optimist – pessimistout – in
outer – innerover – under
past – presentpatient – impatient
peace – warpermanent – temporary
plentiful – scarceplural – singular
poetry – prosepolite – rude, impolite
possible – impossiblepoverty – wealth, riches
powerful – weakpretty – ugly
private – publicprudent – imprudent
pure – impure, contaminatedpush-pull
qualified – unqualifiedquestion – answer
raise – lowerrapid – slow
rare – commonreal – fake
regular – irregularrich – poor
right – left, wrongupside-down
rough – smoothrude – courteous
safe – unsafesame – opposite
satisfactory – unsatisfactoryscatter – collect
second-hand – newsecure – insecure
separate – join, togetherserious – trivial
shallow – deepshrink – grow
sick – healthy, illsimple – complex, hard
singular – pluralsink – float
slim – fat, thickslow – fast
sober – drunksoft – hard

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Benefits of Learning Antonyms and Synonyms

Above all, Knowing words in synonymy plays an important role in creative writing . Repeating one word will make your piece, dull and uninteresting and correct use of synonyms will transform your writing from repetitive to imaginative giving it life and creating a vivid picture in reader’s head. It also enhances the essence of your insight in a better way.

Furthermore, thesaurus is a book of synonyms in which you can find and learn different synonyms, but to pull a thesaurus right here, right now, will not be appreciated by many of you. So to begin with we have fished some twenty words out of English because none of us wants to leave puzzled. However, to wrap up, let’s go on a “verbivore” diet!

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