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Auto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meanings; Autogram: a sentence that provide an inventory of its own characters; Irony; Malapropism: incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with different meaning; Neologism: creating new words
From Old French confit, from Latin confectum meaning "put together". Discomfit probably includes some conflation with discomfort. Disgruntle Gruntle [b] Humorous back-formation, circa 1938. Disgusting Gusting From Latin gustāre meaning to taste; antonym form appeared in Old French desgouster: Disheveled, Dishevelled Sheveled, [a] Shevelled [a ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
Other contronyms are a form of polysemy, but where a single word acquires different and ultimately opposite definitions. For example, sanction —"permit" or " penalize "; bolt (originally from crossbows )—"leave quickly" or "fix/immobilize"; fast —"moving rapidly" or "fixed in place".
The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective–noun combination of two words, but they can also be devised in the meaning of sentences or phrases. One classic example of the use of oxymorons in English literature can be found in this example from Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet , where Romeo strings together thirteen in a row: [ 11 ]
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a form of political-economic corruption grass: an informant (often to the police) (to grass on) to tell on somebody (US: to squeal, narc) green ground cover marijuana grazing; to feed (livestock) with grass (UK: at grass, to put out to grass) grammar school: a type of secondary school, normally a selective state funded school