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An important linguistic conception called antomymy is employed to convey specific lexical-semantic relationships between words. These words exhibit semantic, lexical, morphological, and pragmatic characteristics. Addutiinally, numerous studies conducted on the level of various nations have emphasized all of these levels concerning antonyms. However, there is one level of analysis that has been completely ignored by researchers and academics, namely the phonological one. Therefore, this study's significance stems from uncovering this factor of analysis and investigating the phonological characteristics of antonyms. The researcher attempts to delve in the phonological features in general and in syllable structures of antonyms in particular to investigate, examine and arrived at a generalization of their occurrences. A case which may be useful to language practitioners, teachers and students. As a result, the current study's goals include identifying antonyms and other related subjects, determining antonyms, as well as investigating the phonological segmental properties of antonyms (more precisely, performing a syllable analysis). Its is postulated that antonyms have specific phonological characteristics, besides their specific structure of syllables. Undoubtedly, this initiative will close a gap in the body of literature on the current topic. However, the data that are chosen from websites relevant to this issue are analyzed by using a descriptive analytical technique. Consequently, this study concludes that no specific syllable structure pattern to generalize upon it is found, though there are aspects of similarities among the analyzed data in general. The study will help the students to develop their competence to meet their present and future needs and to make them absorb the significance of antonymy by focusing on this phenomenon from all its aspects.