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Gradable antonyms Gradable antonyms ----there are often intermediate forms between the two members of a pair, e.g. old-young, hot-cold, tall-short, … Complementary antonyms Complementary antonyms ----the denial of one member of the pair implies the assertion of the other, e.g. alive-dead, male-female, … Sense relations between sentences (1)?? X is synonymous with Y (2)?? X is inconsistent with Y (3)?? X entails Y (4)?? X presupposes Y (5)?? X is a contradiction (6)?? X is semantically anomalous X is synonymous with Y X: He was a bachelor all his life. Y: He never got married all his lif