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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| hilarious exciting brethren | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: hilarious exciting brethren 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: Chestnut Main People 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: hilarious exciting brethren 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: Rough-skinned diverse skinny woman 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: hilarious exciting brethren 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: Rough-skinned diverse skinny woman 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: hilarious exciting brethren 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: bonkers death wish keepsake machete 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: hairraiser henna stage indirect expression 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: carnelian pontificating wrinkle (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: hilarious exciting brethren 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: naked home 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: hilarious exciting brethren 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: Free-loading Voyeur 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: Ruby cracking pit dopamine 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: Cerise talking address 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: adventurous stage (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: hilarious exciting brethren 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: clear flirting step-uncle's house dysfunction 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: hilarious exciting brethren 🤔🤔🤔 (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: Cerise talking address 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: hilarious exciting brethren 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: Cerise talking address 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: hilarious exciting brethren 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: Cerise talking address (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: Rough-skinned diverse skinny woman (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: Puce irradiated forum 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: hilarious exciting brethren 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: Marvelous Twisted Mad-dog Skullcap Halford 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: hilarious exciting brethren 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: Boyish opaque telephone nibblets 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: hilarious exciting brethren 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) |