3. CONCLUSION
There are typical affixes and typical patterns that go into play informing these derivational antonyms. It is significant that in the
examples given above preffixes prevail. The regular type of derivational antonyms contains negative prefixes: dis-, il-/im-/im-/ir-
and un-. Other negative prefixes occur in this function only occasionally. As to the suffixes, it should be noted that modern English
gives no examples of words forming their antonyms by adding a negative suffix, such as for instance, -less. The opposition
hopeless::hopeful or useless::useful is more complicated as the suffix -less is not merely added to the contrasting stem, but
substituted for the suffix-ful. Key words:
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