Not all adjectival antonyms fit so nicely into these categories. So-called grad-able completnentaries, like dishonest/honest, lie between. complementarity and contrariety. They seem to contradict each other (K is not honest entails X is dishonest, and vice versa), but a middle ground seems to. exist, since we can assert that some parson is neither honest nor dishonest: Even classic examples of complementarity, like dead/alive, sometimes take. on gradable qualities (e.g. he's more dead than alive).