BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song

Subject: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Joe_F
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 06:14 PM

To be sung TTTO Non più andrai in Mozart's Figaro:

Long and short,
Rough and smooth,
Nice and nasty,
High and low,
Loud and soft,
Drunk and sober,
Hot and cold,
Warm and cool,
Smart and stupid,
Thick and thin,
Light and dark,
Large and small,
Wet and dry,
Bright and dim,
Neat and messy,
Rich and poor,
Young and old,
Near and far.

Hard and soft,
Tall and short,
Sad and happy,
Fast and slow,
Good and bad,
Deep and shallow,
Cheap and dear,
Weak and strong,
Wise and foolish,
Sharp and dull,
Fat and lean,
Fresh and stale,
Old and new,
Fair and foul,
Big and little,
Rich and lean,
Harsh and mild,
Coarse and fine.

Great and small,
Limp and stiff,
Tough and tender,
Well and ill,
Soon and late,
Clean and dirty,
Tight and loose,
Taut and slack,
Hard and easy,
Broad and strait,
Sweet and dry,...

I have run out of monosyllabic antonym pairs. Perhaps you can help me at least get thru the third stanza.

1+2-syllable pairs are plentiful:

Light and heavy,
Wide and narrow,
Glad and sorry,
Straight and crooked,
Calm and windy,
Rare and common,
Slick and sticky,
Fair and cloudy,
Sick and healthy,
Late and early,
Kind and cruel,
Crisp and soggy,
Safe and risky,
Bald and hairy,

I should point out that I am interested in adjectives that refer to directions on a scale -- not ones (such as live and dead) that purport to name the interior & exterior of a set.

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 06:42 PM

.Joe_F, I once wrote a song I call 'Sun and Rain' that may contain usable opposites. Among the pairs:

Pleasure and Pain
Friend and Foe
Laugheter and Tears
Hopes and Fears
Joy and Grief
Raputure and Woe
Giggles and Sighs
Hellos and Goodbyes
Promises Broken, Words left Unspoken
Loves and Hates
Births and Fates
Supernal and Infernal

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:11 AM

'Up and Down' In and Out' #wet and dry' right and left, black and white
Rum and shrub!

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Genie
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 11:37 AM

Aren't you looking for only adjectives?

How about:

bright and dull (or dumb)
quick and dead

or, in the idiom of kids today:
cool and lame

rude and nice (or naughty and nice)
spry or stiff
fair or foul
meek or brave (meek or forward)

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Newport Boy
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 12:37 PM

Rum and shrub!

There's an old man - when did you last drink rum and shrub?

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 02:13 PM

Republican and reality based?

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 02:53 PM

Juat after a glass of Brandy and Lovage.

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 03:57 PM

Me and you
Him and her
Off and on
Ooh and Aah
Back and forth
Here and there
Yes and No

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Newport Boy
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:02 PM

Juat after a glass of Brandy and Lovage.

A man after my father's heart!!

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:05 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Y428hauA4

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Alice
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:05 PM

The thread title made me think you wanted adjectives about caribou and igloos and aurora borealis!! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Joe_F
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 06:37 PM

Alas, all the preceding suggestions either fail to meet the specification (polar adjectives) or are already in the song. ("Dim" is a better opposite to "bright" than either "dull" or "dum".) I'm afraid I may have got them all.

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 06:42 PM

There are several two syllable words in the first list: tender, for example.

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Slag
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:00 PM

Democrat and sane.
Republican and sane.
Political and sane.

Polar? or dualistic? Very little we know does not have an opposite.

Obverse reverse
Slick and rough
good enough

Combine them and you're into oxymorons, mulish morons, bullish morons...

Polar? Spectrums all along the same element but at opposite ends and all at once, like:

Sweet and sour
Joy and sorrow
Laugh 'til you cry
Pleasure and pain
a generous thief
a tight philanthropist

Killing me softly, perhaps with the kiss of death.
Infinitely finite.
Frozen flames.
The red hot vacuum of space
A neat pig
A filled hole
On and on we go

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Newport Boy
Date: 07 Nov 09 - 04:37 AM

Just dawned on me that the obvious polar adjectives are north & south!

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Polar adjectives wanted for silly song
From: Genie
Date: 07 Nov 09 - 09:31 AM

pale and deep (or dark)

lewd and prude (prudish)

nude and clad

Straight and bent (or straight and gay)