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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| elite mexican | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| aggressive impertinent chapel | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| aggressive impertinent chapel | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| crusty meetinghouse | 02/15/22 |
| Onyx ladyboy | 02/15/22 |
| Henna Gunner Nowag | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| pearl supple abode potus | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| Disgusting Hall Dingle Berry | 02/16/22 |
| Big plum station hissy fit | 02/15/22 |
| Indigo locale queen of the night | 02/15/22 |
| carmine stag film trump supporter | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| brindle motley main people idea he suggested | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| Indigo locale queen of the night | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| Indigo locale queen of the night | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| Indigo locale queen of the night | 02/16/22 |
| aggressive impertinent chapel | 02/15/22 |
| Honey-headed Stimulating Field Double Fault | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| wonderful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| bateful flushed twinkling uncleanness | 02/15/22 |
| wine knife | 02/15/22 |
| oomox | 04/07/26 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: wine knife fucking "deceptively"
"the question was deceptively simple" can mean that it seems simple but isn't, OR that it doesn't seem simple but it is
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:17 PM Author: elite mexican Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: wine knife ooh good one!
"this oversight was a result of a serious lack of oversight" |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: aggressive impertinent chapel That's not a function of the word but of pragmatics pertaining to the properties of the question. I thought this thread was about stuff like innervate / enervate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: wine knife fine - i mean words that CAN, depending on context, mean two things that are opposites*
but innervate/enervate is welcome here too, equally TTT |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: aggressive impertinent chapel Broadly speaking, any word can have two opposite meanings in the sense you mean if you vary the pragmatics—that is why irony is possible and so rich in language. Your issue seems to be with imprecision introduced by using a word like "deceptively" to modify an adjective, since there's ambiguity about whether what is "deceptive" is the easiness or the initial appearance while the true nature is easy.
The meaning can be cleaned up a bit by just modifying the word order and punctuation: "Deceptively, the test was simple" to my ear sounds like the test was in fact simple; "The test was simple—deceptively" sounds to me like it appeared simple but that appearance was deceptive.
Still, all told this is an unfortunate construction and best avoided altogether save when strategic ambiguity is the goal. |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:41 PM Author: wine knife credited analysis ty!! i don't necessarily share your interpretations of the two examples you gave, but good call about the ambiguity of what "deceptively" is modifying
and yeah i realized after poasting that someone was probably going to point out that ANY word can mean diff things based on context >__> |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: crusty meetinghouse need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: Onyx ladyboy inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Henna Gunner Nowag (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: wine knife well the issue with that one is that the two words sound like opposites but are synonyms. also TTT. i'm guessing the "in" is from "inflame" but i'm too lazy to verify (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: pearl supple abode potus cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: wine knife titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: Disgusting Hall Dingle Berry that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: Big plum station hissy fit so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Indigo locale queen of the night Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: carmine stag film trump supporter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: wine knife another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: brindle motley main people idea he suggested faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: wine knife 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: Indigo locale queen of the night Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: wine knife cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: Indigo locale queen of the night They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: wine knife tyty! it would be funny if "contronym" also meant "words that sound like antonyms but are synonyms" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: Indigo locale queen of the night (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: aggressive impertinent chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: Honey-headed Stimulating Field Double Fault science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: wine knife lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: wonderful step-uncle's house cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: wine knife rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: bateful flushed twinkling uncleanness moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: wine knife whoa i didn't even know it had the "debatable" meaning; i always just used it to mean "irrelevant" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#43974567) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 10:21 PM Author: oomox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2],#49802525) |