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The earliest recorded usage in English of sesquipedalian is in 1656, and of sesquipedalianism, 1863. [5] Garrulous comes from Latin garrulus, "talkative", a form of the verb garrīre, "to chatter". The adjective may describe a person who is excessively talkative, especially about trivial matters, or a speech that is excessively wordy or diffuse [6]
The relationship between overlapping antonyms is often not inherent, but arises from the way they are interpreted most generally in a language. There is no inherent reason that an item be presumed to be bad when it is compared to another as being worse (it could be "less good"), but English speakers have combined the meaning semantically to it ...
For instance cleave "separate" is from Old English clēofan, while cleave "adhere" is from Old English clifian, which was pronounced differently. Other contronyms are a form of polysemy, but where a single word acquires different and ultimately opposite definitions.
I am sparkling; you are unusually talkative; he is drunk. [5] I know my own mind; you like things to be just so; they have to have everything their way. [5] I am a freedom fighter, you are a rebel, and he is a terrorist. I am eccentric, you are weird, he is mad. I am righteously indignant, you are annoyed, he is making a fuss over nothing. [2]
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The use of the term opposite and its definition and relation to the term antonym has nothing to do with the synonym page. As pointed out by Lyons and others, opposites are quite different from synonyms and are not really "the opposite" of synonyms (despite the common belief to the contrary). – ishwar (speak) 02:56, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
You use closed body language (like crossing your arms) toward the person providing feedback. You stop listening to what the other person is saying. You start quickly listing a series of points to ...
Henry Yoshida, co-founder of Rocket Dollar, highlights that gold prices and the U.S. dollar traditionally move in opposite directions. "A stronger U.S. dollar will suppress the price of gold ...