What is the antonym of "blank" in "a blank sheet of paper"?
Say, you have a sheet of paper. It is blank. I begin to write on it. It's no longer blank. But then what it is? I have tried the usual sources for antonyms but came up, well, blank.
A few options:
- full / filled
- marked
- inked
- dirty
- nonblank — oddly in my spellchecker but not in my dictionary
- touched
- unclean
If 'blank' means "The entire sheet is unmarked", then the opposite is "Some part of the sheet is touched", and the antonym is used or marked
If 'blank' means "The sheet is unfilled", then the opposite is "The entire sheet has been marked", and the antonym is full or filled in
The preferred natural antonym is the first; if you say "that sheet is not blank", the most likely inference is not that it is completely full but that it has at least some marks on it.
IF something is written on a blank sheet of paper, I'd call it a used piece of paper.
I like most of @MrHen's answers, but would add "written on" (or "written-on")...that is the one I would be most likely to use colloquially.