Antonyms Quiz #1

Yes I tried child, children, heir, offspring, even spawn. Couldnt think of more english words meaning children of your bloodline that come after you. (Well not come after you haha)

I think atleast offspring should be allowed

Edit; and after looking it up (heard of posterity, not sure about progeny, but either way not sure about the exact definition) posyerity and progeny should be allowed too.

All three all listed as synonyms to descendant

Posterity? has nothing to do genetics. All the other words you suggest refer to the people of whom you are a parent. Only descendant refers to the people of whom you are an ancestor. Only descendant is the correct answer.

me too

Descendant was one of the first ones I answered.

I had no idea what nadir meant but i guessed it

and im not even in high school

78%.

Never heard of some of these terms.

Perhaps standard can also work for the opposite of automatic

Thats not really an antonym. In cars a "standard" transmission was just the way cars worked before the automatic transmission was invented. In this case standard just means "the normal way of doing things". you could argue that nowadays an automatic transmission is more "standard" but the name has stuck. So, the opposite of automatic is still manual, not standard.

Progeny should really be accepted as an antonym for ancestor.

yes, should be!

agree (1,000) This was my first thought as well.

Descendant is the perfect choice. Progeny is not as strong. For one it rarely ever takes the plural. When referring to more than one, you would still say "my progeny." Secondly, in usage it's far more academic than descendant. Ancestor is a fairly casual word. Similarly is descendant. You would casually say "the descendants of Thomas Jefferson." "The progeny of Thomas Jefferson" not so much. Definition alone does not make it an antonym. The antonym for "large" is not "little" but "small."

I think the antonym 'provincial' should also be accepted for 'urban' (when talking about a person). And maybe 'kin' for 'ancestor' and 'remove' for 'add'.

kin definitely isn't the antonym of ancestor, kin is just anyone who's related to you

kith and kin are antonyms, pretty much made for each other

I did too! Then I remembered diurnal :)

Or a synonym for me.

Same

Agreed. I kept trying abstract... it should definitely be accepted, since the clue is vague.

I agree with that too.

+1

Could you please also accept "rustic" as the opposite of "urban"? Thank you.

look at the definition, he/she is right.

I think suburban, country and pagan (the original meaning) i meant to say rural, it just didnt surface

Got them all with 3:40 left.

4:07 this time around, feeling great!

I did almost as well but I got hung up on zenith thinking the antonym was azimuth.. finally I figured out I wasn't spelling it wrong and the answer was something else. Then it came to me.

Got all except zenith. Nice quiz.

You think that's bad? You ain't seen nadir yet ... seriously, that's how I remember which one is which

Yep, same. Would've gotten them all, but nadir eluded me.

How do you add pictures to quizzes?

QM chooses quizzes to feature and adds the picture himself.

I got them all with 3 minutes left except for diurnal.

Am I the only one who tried spelling "opaque" with a 'g' instead of a 'q'? How embarrassing!

I did first too then switched it when it wasn't accepted :p

Tool - sober ;)

Obscure for transparent?

I think that is terrific, I am always in awe of how well some people can manage English as a second (sometimes third) language.

Just curious; how/when is something your second or third language?

When you know several language besides your native tongue. (Random, or the one you happen to better at? Or something else?)

Or is it only called second language when you have actually been raised in more than one language (like an english mother and a french father, just to give an example)

Would make sense... because then you say MY second language (not that you own it, but is is more your own than when, say, you learned another language at 30)

You see, english isnt my first language? I know the words, and the meaning of them, but that doesnt allways mean you know what is meant by them ;)

Usually, your first language is the one you were actually raised speaking. And yes, that does mean it's possible to have more than one first language, if you were raised in a household that spoke multiple languages. A second/third/etc. language would be one that you learned later in life, after you already knew how to speak your first language(s).

I think my point was if you know like 3,4,5+ languages when is something your second language (when you have only been raised with one), how do you decide which one is your second language. First is obvious.

for urban put remote area

A little table by my armchair is my remote area.

it is remote when you cant reach is. Like when your remote is lying by the television instead of on your couch.. (or wherever you are sitting) I hate it when people move my remote.,.

thats two words?

For some reason, I never put together "oriental" as literally meaning "eastern." I just thought of orient in the sense of the verb, i.e. to right one's sense of direction.

Isnt that orientate? (That what it would translate to from dutch orienteren. Not that there arent exceptions to certain rules. Language can be a strange thing)

Not sure I agree with the antonym of protagonist, regardless of what any dictionary or thesaurus will tell you. A protagonist is defined as the main character in a story, while antagonist describes an opponent. However, in a story you can have two protagonists who happen to fight against each other, i.e. becoming antagonists to each other (think the battle between your personal angel and devil). The opposite of protagonist for me would be every other (supporting) character that is not "main" - much like in a film where you have main actors (standing for the main character) and supporting actors (for supporting characters).

Oddly appropriate that "nadir" is the least-guessed answer.

I cant believe so many people got Nadir incorrect.

Could you add "minus" as an answer for subtract, it was the first one I thought of.

minus sort of pairs with plus

"Remove" should be accepted as an antonym of "add".

"Analog"? Surely the word is spelled "analogue"?

it's not. But if you type in "analogue" you still get the right answer.

It is..

saying analogue is wrong/not the way to spell it, is just as wrong/makes as little sense as saying the word analog is wrong/not the way to spell it.

you are acting like there is some imperical truth. (Now if people would want to see the spelling in spanish or slovene for instance that would be a different matter. Since the question is in english, the answer should be in english. Unless it is something like the name of a city, then it could be in the native la nguage aswell)

@WanHuangdi...so like Color and Colour?

Missed diurnal and nadir

I always miss them

All of these were easy except zenith.

I think "abstract" should be accepted for "figurative" as well as "remove" for "add".

4:06 remaining

Did anyone else try 'real' for the opposite of 'digital'?

Add and subtract are verbs. Addition and subtraction are nouns. Same same only different.

Why does it not accept the opposite of poetry as Vogons!!???

Hello fellow 42ist.

i got all except nadir (never heard of it) with 3.52 left

COME ON!!!!!!!!! the opposite of digital is physical because you can have something digitally stored or something physically stored. It should have said that it was a clock.

please accept single for singular

occidental and oriental almost got me cold

There is no indication that digital is a clock, it could be anything

I got so desperate that for urban I tried midwest.

Can you accept "physical" as an antonym for digital? With stuff like music or video games, for example, you can either have a digital copy or a physical copy.

I think digital means something that is operated by a binary code (ie digits). Analogue means something that works by an organic or mechanic sequence. The antonym of physical is imaginary.

I'm not arguing that analog is wrong, I just think physical should be accepted as well. Yes, words like "imaginary" or "abstract" can be antonyms of physical in many contexts, but not in the context I brought up with owning a copy of whatever media.

got all except for "prose" never heard of it before