Question

Choose the word which is antonymous to the word given in capitals.

QUEER

• A. strange
• B. familiar
• C. noisy
• D. normal

Hint:

Queer means odd or abnormal; the sharpest opposite is the word meaning usual and ordinary, not merely well known.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Queer means strange, odd, peculiar or out of the ordinary. The truest opposite is normal, which means usual, ordinary and conforming to the common pattern. Normal is a better fit than familiar because queer chiefly means abnormal or eccentric, and the direct opposite of abnormal is normal; familiar is the opposite of unknown, a narrower recognition sense that queer does not centre on.

• normal is correct because it directly opposes the sense of odd, peculiar and abnormal that queer carries.
• familiar is a weaker choice because it means well known and opposes strange only in the unknown sense, not the abnormal sense that dominates queer.
• strange is wrong because it is a synonym of queer, not an antonym.
• noisy is wrong because it refers to sound and has no bearing on the idea of oddness.

So the best antonym of QUEER is normal.