Difference between Complementary and Antonymous

What is the difference between Complementary and Antonymous?

Complementary as an adjective is acting as a complement while Antonymous as an adjective is having an opposite or diametrically opposed meaning

Complementary

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: acting as a complement of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA

Example sentence: Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

Antonymous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having an opposite or diametrically opposed meaningof, or being an antonym

We hope you now know whether to use Complementary or Antonymous in your sentence.

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