Enjoy our latest list of opposite words to help trigger ideas and spark creative thought. Sometimes all it takes is a simple word to trigger a host of connections stored away inside your head. Anyone can be creative and anyone can come up with the next BIG IDEA. Pick a word from the list of opposite words below and start thinking how you can shape or mould your problem to fit. Start building a solid creativity foundation...see things differently....the IDEAS will come. Try something completely different, sometimes when you move in the opposite direction the ideas will come.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Absent/ Present Accept/ Decline Admit/ Deny Advantage/Disadvantage Ancient/ Modern Answer/ Question
Any/ None Apart/ Together Appear/ Disappear Arrive/ Depart Artificial/ Natural Ascend/ Descend Awake/ Asleep Back/ Front Backward/ Forward Behind/ Ahead Before/ After Begin/ End Bent/ Straight Best/ Worst Big/ Small Bitter/ Sweet Black/ White Blunt/ Sharp Bottom/ Top Bound/ Unbound Boy/ Girl Brave/ Cowardly Bright/ Dull Brighten/ Fade Build/ Destroy Calm/ Windy Cheap/ Expensive Clean/ Dirty Clear/ Cloudy Clockwise/Counter-clockwise Cold/ Hot Combine/ Separate Compulsory/ Voluntary Conceal/ Reveal Contract/ Expand Crazy/ Sane Curly/ Straight Day/ Night Dead/ Alive Decrease/ Increase Deep/ Shallow Dim/ Bright Diseased/ Healthy Dumb/ Smart Dusk/ Dawn Early/ Late East/ West Easy/ Difficult Enter/ Exit Every/ None Everything/ Nothing Export/ Import Exterior/ Interior Fact/ Fiction Famous/ Unknown Far/ Near Fast/ Slow Float/ Sink Fold/ Unfold Frequent/ Seldom Fresh/ Stale Full/ Empty Get/ Give Good/ Bad Grow/ Shrink Guest/ Host Hairy/ Bald Happy/ Sad Hard/ Easy Heavy/ Light Here/ There His/ Hers Hope/ Despair Horizontal/ Vertical Night/ Day Fat/ Thin High/ Low In/ Out |
Inside/ Outside Interesting/ Dull
Internal/ External Join/ Separate Junior/ Senior Kids/ Adults Lend/ Take Length/ Width Lengthen/ Shorten Less/ More Level/ Uneven Light/ Dark Limited/ Boundless Long/ Short Lost/ Found Loud/ Soft Male/ Female Man/ Woman Many/ Few Maximum/ Minimum Men/ Women Neat/ Messy Never/ Always Night-time/ Daytime Noisy/ Quite Odd/ Even Old/ New On/ Off Open/ Close Ornate/ Simple Outer/ Inner Over/ Under Part/ Whole Past/ Present Perfect/ Flawed Permanent/ Temporary Plural/ Singular Pre/ Post Prince/ Princess Pure/ Impure Push/ Pull Quite/ Noisy Regular/ Irregular Remember/ Forget Rich/ Poor Right/ Left Right/ Wrong Right-side-up/Upside-down Rise/ Fall Run/ Walk Safe/ Dangerous Save/ Spend Scatter/ Collect Second-hand/ New Silly/ Serious Single/ Married Sit/ Stand Smooth/ Rough Start/ Stop Soft/ Hard Straight/ Wavy Strong/ Weak Sunny/ Cloudy Sweet/ Savoury Sweet/ Sour Tall/ Short Tame/ Wild Theirs/ Yours Thick/ Thin Tight/ Loose True/ False Under/ Over Up/ Down Upstairs/ Downstairs Useless/ Useful Vacant/ Occupied Visible/ Invinsible Warm/ Cool Water/ Ice Wet/ Dry Wide/ Narrow Wonder/ Know Yes/ No Young/ Old |
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