English Dictionary

complementary antonym

名詞

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

日本語の意味

一方が存在すればもう一方が存在しない、つまりどちらか一方の属性しか成立しない性質を示す対義語。例えば、『mortal（死すべき）』と『immortal（不死の）』の関係のように、互いに補完し合う関係にある対となる語を指す。

In semantics, 'mortal' and 'immortal' are often cited as a complementary antonym pair that partitions entities into mutually exclusive categories.

意味論では、「死すべき」と「不死」はしばしば相補的対義語の例として挙げられ、存在を相互排他的な二者択一のカテゴリーに分類します。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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

Complementary (also called contradictory) antonyms are those for which the assertion of one entails the negation of the other and vice versa, as in (17). a. That integer is even. → That integer is not odd. b. That integer is not odd. → That integer is even.

complementary antonyms （ plural ）