Antonyms in Hindi – II
Posted on 26. Dec, 2011 by Nitin Kumar in Hindi Language
In continuing my post on Antonyms in Hindi, I will show the antonyms for some of the common Hindi words. Antonyms in Hindi are called विलोम शब्द (Vilom – Opposite, Shabdh – Words)
Like the first post, I would like to point out some observations as given below
Many antonyms are being made by adding certain prefix. You can find many of them in the table below. They will sound similar after the before-said prefix. Some of the common prefix are अनु (anu), आ (aa), अ (a) , नि (ni) , वि (vi), प्रति (prati), दु (du) etc.
The romanized spellings are given in brackets.
| Word | Word’s Meaning | Antonyms | Antonym’s Meaning |
| सावधान (saavdhaan) | careful | असावधान (asaavdhaan) | careless |
| दुष्ट (dusht) | rogue | सज्जन (sajjan) | noble |
| पूर्ति (purti) | supply | माँग (mang) | demand |
| प्रकाश (prakash) | light | अंधकार (andhkar) | darkness |
| सबल (sabal) | capable | निर्बल (nirbal) | incapable |
| संधि (sandhi) | joining | विच्छेद (viched) | division |
| लायक (laayak) | suitable | नालायक (naalaayak) | unsuitable |
| मान (maan) | value, reputation | अपमान (apmaan) | humiliations |
| स्वस्थ (svathy) | healthy | अस्वस्थ (asvathy) | unhealthy |
| धनी (dhani) | rich | निर्धन (nirdhan) | poor |
| पूर्व (purv) | before | अपूर्व (apurv) | unprecedented |
| सुख (sukh) | happiness | दुःख (dukh) | sadness |
| जय (jai) | victory, hail | पराजय (parajay) | defeat |
| सरल (saral) | simple, banal | कठिन (kathin) | difficult, complicated |
| बंधन (bandhan) | attachment | मुक्ति (mukti) | freedom |
| प्रात (praat) | morning | साय (saay) | evening |
| सुन्दर (sundar) | beautiful | असुंदर (asundhar), कुरूप (kurup) | ugly |
| गुरु (guru) | master, teacher | शिष्य (shishy) | student |
| पाप (paap) | sin, crime | पुण्य (purny) | alms-deed |
| निंदा (ninda) | condemnation | स्तुति (stuti), प्रशंशा (prashansha) | praise |
| स्वदेश (svadesh) | fatherland, home country | विदेश (videsh) | foreign land |
| दास (daas) | slave | स्वामी (svaami) | master |
| दोषी (doshi) | guilty | निर्दोषी (nirdhoshi) | innocent |
| जीवन (jeevan) | life | मरण (maran) | dying |
| शिक्षित (shikshit) | literate | अशिक्षित (ashikshit) | illiterate |
| उन्नति (unnatti) | progress | अवनति (avnati) | decline |
| सुगंध (sughand) | scent | दुर्गन्ध (durgand) | foul smell |
| विष (vish) | poison | अमृत (amrit) | elixir |
| यश (yash) | fame | अपयश (apyash) | ill-fame |
| संजीव (sanjeev) | live | निर्जीव (nirjeev) | dead |
| सदाचार (sadaachaar) | got treatment | दुराचार (duraachaar) | bad treatment |
| धरती (darati) | earth, soil, ground | आकाश (aakash) | sky |
| परतंत्र (partantr) | foreign rule | स्वतंत्र (svatantr) | self-rule |
| राग (raag) | attachment, passion | विराग (viraag) | alienation, dispassion |
| मंगल (mangal) | auspicious | अमंगल (amangal) | inauspicious |
| भला (bhalaa) | kind | बुरा (bura) | bad |
| रक्षक (rakshak) | one who protects | भक्षक (bhakshak) | one who eats |
| निर्गुण (nirgun) | without good attributes | सगुण (sagun) | with good attribute |
| उत्थान (utthan) | development | पतन (patan) | decline |
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Nitin Kumar is a native Hindi speaker from New Delhi, India. Professionally, he has got Masters in Robotics and currently works in the field of technical research in hi-tech industry in Germany. His passion for Indian culture and writing in particular, has motivated him to share technical and cultural blogs on various websites. He has been working with Transparent Language since 2010 and has written over 250 blogs on various facet of his motherland, India and his language, Hindi. He is also the Administrator for Hindi Facebook page which has a community of over 330,000 members.2 Responses to “Antonyms in Hindi – II”
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Thank you so much for your posts.They are very useful and easy to understand.Keep it up!
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