Question

Write opposites of the following:
Increase in weight

Answer 1

Hint: Increase in something means to make the size or amount more (of the particular thing. height can increase, weight can increase, numbers can increase and so on. The opposite here would be something that denotes less or loss of size, amount or degree of something.

Complete answer:
 Now, let us look into the phrase whose opposite we have to find – ‘increase in weight’. As you must know we have antonyms for weight but we do not have a word that is the exact opposite of weight like fat and thin, man and women etc.
The same is the case with ‘in’ because it is used as a preposition in the above given phrase.

Now, the opposite of ‘increase’... you must have an idea what the opposite is – it is ‘decrease’.

Now, let us look at a probable solution – decrease out/in weakness. But as you must have made out, this makes no sense. Therefore, the correct phrase would be to change increase into decrease and get the exact opposite of the given phrase. And that will be – ‘decrease in weight’.

You can consider the following example to understand the phrase - for e.g. - did you notice the increase in her weight? What would be the opposite of this?
Did you notice the decrease in her weight? She must be working out.

Note: You do not need to change the whole phrase, it just requires the opposite of one of the words to give you the opposite of the phrase.