Antonyms – Does ‘Within’ Have an Antonym? Find Out Here
antonyms
Does "within" have an antonym?
If there is an antonym, which one is it?
Best Answer
Mehper beats me to it with outside, so I'll just throw in a third alternative for the sake of completeness. Historically, without is an antonym of within, and Merriam-Webster still says that the first meaning of without is "outside" without further comment, but I don't actually see it being used that way these days. Wiktionary marks that usage as "archaic or literary".
Sparse and its antonym dense may serve in some contexts, such as mathematics and computer science. For example, a sparse set is a set that has few members out of a large potential population of members. An empty set has no members, and a dense set has many members. However, I can't recall hearing the term full set in this context.
In other contexts, such as "a glass half-full" one would not use sparse or dense.
Best Answer
Mehper beats me to it with outside, so I'll just throw in a third alternative for the sake of completeness. Historically, without is an antonym of within, and Merriam-Webster still says that the first meaning of without is "outside" without further comment, but I don't actually see it being used that way these days. Wiktionary marks that usage as "archaic or literary".