I was watching a show tonight where they wondered about the opposite of "interesting." My thought was "boring," but the question piqued my interest and I found this website on opposites. While many seemed good, some of them were quite odd to me. For example, is "lady" the opposite of "gentleman" to you? Or is "mean" the opposite of "generous?" Take a look at it and see what other odd/wrong ones you can find.

It depends on your definition of "opposite". Some words don't really have an opposite; is an adult really the opposite of a child, for instance? Is a man the opposite of a woman? I'd say man and woman are similar, not opposites, although I can see why they're listed.

One particular pairing that I noticed is active/lazy. That really is wrong. Another is to amuse/to bore.

I like the Discworld conceit where "sober" isn't the opposite of "drunk" it's merely the absence of "drunk" and the opposite of "drunk" is "knurd" the state that is on the opposite side of "sober" as far as "drunk" is on this side.

http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Knurd

I guess he's not a fan of Chomsky's book, "Necessary Illusions?" Maybe more an Ashleigh Brilliant fan: https://www.goodreads.com/book...g_for_a_Good_Fantasy

Bob, what kind of a site is that wiki.lspace? It reminds me of the "Onion." All those links must have been hard to plan.

No idea, I just googled Knurd to get more info for you.