Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun indirect_antonym

1 sense of indirect antonym

Sense 1
indirect antonym -- (antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry'))
       => antonym, opposite word, opposite -- (a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'")