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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: bateful stain 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: adventurous tattoo Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: bateful stain 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: buff menage hairy legs 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ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: bateful stain 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: buff menage hairy legs 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: bateful stain 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: Snowy Senate Coffee Pot need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: flesh galvanic point dingle berry inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Motley Lodge Pistol (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: bateful stain 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ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: effete razzle locale cuckoldry cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: bateful stain titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: Cowardly national that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: crystalline unholy windowlicker so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Wonderful mediation ticket booth Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Vibrant Selfie Halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: bateful stain another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: bateful stain 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: Wonderful mediation ticket booth Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: bateful stain cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: Wonderful mediation ticket booth They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: bateful stain 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ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: Wonderful mediation ticket booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: buff menage hairy legs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: carmine business firm science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: bateful stain lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Vivacious church nibblets cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: bateful stain rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: bateful stain 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ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#43974567) |
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