Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly Seldom and Often

Seldom means hardly ever and often means time and again

Seldom means time and again and often means hardly ever

Seldom means never and often means not at all

Seldom means frequently and often means time and again

Antonyms — NDA Previous Year Questions

56 solved PYQs · 2021–2025 · English

Solved PYQs: 56
Years covered: 2021–2025
Avg / year: ~11
Subject: English

How many NDA questions come from Antonyms?

Antonyms has contributed 56 questions to National Defence Academy Examination papers between 2021 and 2025 — an average of about 11 questions a year. That count is measured from EByAi’s bank of 15,695 NDA questions, not estimated from a syllabus. Every one of the 56 questions carries a written, step-by-step solution, and each is tagged to Antonyms within English, so you can drill this chapter across every year at once instead of hunting through paper PDFs. Practising a chapter’s full PYQ history is the fastest way to learn the patterns examiners reuse.

Sample Antonyms questions from real NDA papers

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Question 1 · NDA 2025
Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly

Seldom and Often
1. (A) $Seldom means hardly ever and often means time and again$
2. (B) $Seldom means time and again and often means hardly ever$
3. (C) $Seldom means never and often means not at all$
4. (D) $Seldom means frequently and often means time and again$
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$Answer: (A) Seldom means hardly ever and often means time and again$
Question 2 · NDA 2024
These exercises will counteract the effects of stress and tension.
1. (A) $exacerbate$
2. (B) $foil$
3. (C) $thwart$
4. (D) $contravene$
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$Answer: (A) exacerbate$
Question 3 · NDA 2024
Directions : Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words or groups of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the answer sheet accordingly.

His words were vague
1. (A) $identical$
2. (B) $obscure$
3. (C) $precise$
4. (D) $imperceptible$
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$Answer: (C) precise$
Question 4 · NDA 2024
Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words or group of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the answer sheet accordingly.

All human beings are fallible
1. (A) $frail$
2. (B) $erring$
3. (C) $mortal$
4. (D) $perfect$
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$Answer: (D) perfect$
Question 5 · NDA 2024
Directions : Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words or group of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the answer sheet accordingly.

She performed all her duties conscientiously
1. (A) $assiduously$
2. (B) $carelessly$
3. (C) $painstakingly$
4. (D) $scrupulously$
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$Answer: (B) carelessly$

Antonyms questions by year

Year	Questions	Share of chapter questions
2025	1
2024	10
2023	15
2022	20
2021	10

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How many NDA questions have been asked from Antonyms?

EByAi's bank holds 56 real NDA questions from Antonyms, asked between 2021 and 2025 — about 11 per year on average. Every count is measured from actual papers, not estimated.

Is Antonyms important for NDA?

56 questions over 5 papers make Antonyms a steady-weightage chapter in NDA English. The year-wise table above shows exactly how often it appears.

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