Polar antonyms
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Polar antonyms are antonyms with the following properties:
- The comparative of neither term entails the corresponding positive form.
Example: 'long' vs. 'short'; 'x is longer than y' does not entail 'x is long', 'x is shorter than y' does not entail 'x is short'.
