What is the antonym for lamp?

Answer 1

The word "lamp" is a noun -- nouns are always either a person (David, teacher, Queen Elizabeth), a place (China, New York, Mount Everest) or a thing (book, house, lamp). To have an antonym, you usually need a different part of speech: an adjective. Adjectives describe (tell us more about) a noun or a pronoun. For example, "lamp" is a noun, but what kind of lamp? How about a "blue lamp" (blue is an adjective, describing the lamp). Or how about a "small lamp"? Or an "expensive lamp"?

With adjectives, you can have synonyms or antonyms. A synonym is a word with the same meaning: "big" and "large" are synonyms. So are "small" and "little." But an antonym is a word that means the opposite-- "big" and "small" are antonyms. So are "old" and "new." You could only have an antonym if you described the lamp in opposite ways: "the old lamp" and the "new lamp" for example. But the word "lamp" would not be the antonym-- only the adjective (the word that describes it) would be the antonym you are looking for.

Answer 2

The antonym for lamp would be darkness.