Abstract

The article has been written on the basis of comparative-typological method in the study of the English and Azerbaijani languages belonging to different language systems. The main aim of the investigation is to discover different shades of gradual meaning of adjectives in the both languages.

The article studies peculiarities of gradual antonyms. It is revealed that distinguishing feature of the given class of words is graduality of their opposition where the utter members of opposition have maximal degree of feature. The placement of other words, for which middle degree of feature is typical between these members, is allowed.

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