Antonym Finder API

About the Antonym Finder API

Submit a target word and an optional language parameter, which defaults to English. The endpoint checks the term to return an array of direct antonyms. It also identifies the grammatical part of speech, omitting that field whenever an input word is unrecognised.

What people use it for

Vocabulary Flashcard Building

EdTech platforms show opposite terms next to word definitions to help students prepare for standardized language exams.

Content Rewriting Assistance

In text editors, writing assistants suggest contrasting phrasing by retrieving antonyms and parts of speech for highlighted text.

Automated Quiz Generation

To generate fill-in-the-blank questions automatically, course creators query antonyms to build multiple-choice distractors for reading tests.

Customer Review Analysis

When evaluating customer reviews, text processing pipelines inspect antonym lists to detect negation and tonal shifts.

Ways to call it

One endpoint, many ways in — REST with JSON, XML, YAML and CSV, plus GraphQL and an MCP interface for AI agents.

JSON

Default REST response

XML

Markup format

YAML

Human-readable

CSV

Tabular export

Beta

GraphQL

Query language

New

MCP

For AI agents

Request parameters — GET /v1/antonym

Sent in the query string. Premium parameters are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them. Anything not listed here is dropped rather than passed through.

Required

Optional

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curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/antonym?word=happy&language=Spanish" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Authentication

Send your key in the x-api-key header. That is the only auth step — no token exchange, and no per-endpoint scope to configure.

Response — GET /v1/antonym

Every APIVerve endpoint returns the same three top-level keys, so one response handler covers your whole integration: status, error and data. Only data changes shape.

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{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "word": "happy",
    "language": "en",
    "antonyms": [
      "sad",
      "unhappy",
      "miserable",
      "depressed",
      "glum"
    ]
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Response headers

Every response carries your balance, so your own code always knows where it stands without polling anything. All four are exposed to browsers through CORS.

Errors

Read the HTTP status first, then error for the specific reason. The body names the parameter that has to change.

What a call costs — 20 credits per call

Credits are shared across every APIVerve API — one balance, one key, one bill. Failed requests never count against it, so a rejected input costs nothing.

Calls are what the credits buy at this API's rate — spend them here, on any of the other APIs, or across both. Nothing is reserved per endpoint.

Zero-code embed — one snippet, no backend

Drop an interactive Antonym Finder form onto any page. The widget calls the API for you, so no key ever appears in your markup and there is nothing to deploy.

Changelog — Antonym Finder API

Every change to this endpoint, newest first. Breaking changes ship as a new version and the previous one keeps serving — response fields are added, never removed or retyped in place, so an integration written against v1 keeps working.

Currently v1