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Originally Posted by ShadowDark
What you want is a thesaurus. It'll have an antonym section for each entry where you can find the correct prefix.
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"If the total vocabulary of modern English is about 500,000 words, we can suppose that at least 100,000 of those are adjectives"
That'd be a lot of words i'd need to check for an antonym prefix.... that'd be A-intelligent.
I wonder if theres a better way!
"4. Dis-This Latin prefix, when attached to a word, implies one of several meanings: absence (disaffected) or lack (disabled), opposition (disapprove), or removal (disenfranchise)."
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/7-negative-prefixes/
There's a few examples of antonym prefixes to cover most words in the english dictionary, if you stumble upon one that doesn't roll with a word, hyphenate or relax the expression to imply opposition to the statement (ie. disintelligent, dis-intelligent, That'd be a bad idea.)
Peace.