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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| Vivacious base | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| Twinkling kitchen faggot firefighter | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| Twinkling kitchen faggot firefighter | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| Irate Laughsome Coffee Pot French Chef | 02/15/22 |
| wonderful claret senate | 02/15/22 |
| Maize casino hissy fit | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| Ivory Indirect Expression | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| Cobalt Black Woman | 02/16/22 |
| 180 copper cuckoldry | 02/15/22 |
| supple tanning salon double fault | 02/15/22 |
| Soul-stirring Electric Furnace Hall | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| bossy candlestick maker | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| supple tanning salon double fault | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| supple tanning salon double fault | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| supple tanning salon double fault | 02/16/22 |
| Twinkling kitchen faggot firefighter | 02/15/22 |
| chocolate trip striped hyena | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| Comical pearl set digit ratio | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| razzle-dazzle range | 02/15/22 |
| opaque marketing idea | 02/15/22 |
| oomox | 04/07/26 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: opaque marketing idea 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: Vivacious base 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: opaque marketing idea 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: Twinkling kitchen faggot firefighter 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: opaque marketing idea 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: Twinkling kitchen faggot firefighter 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: opaque marketing idea 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: Irate Laughsome Coffee Pot French Chef 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: wonderful claret senate 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: Maize casino hissy fit (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: opaque marketing idea 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: Ivory Indirect Expression 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: opaque marketing idea 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: Cobalt Black Woman 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: 180 copper cuckoldry 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: supple tanning salon double fault 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: Soul-stirring Electric Furnace Hall (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: opaque marketing idea 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: bossy candlestick maker 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: opaque marketing idea 🤔🤔🤔 (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: supple tanning salon double fault 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: opaque marketing idea 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: supple tanning salon double fault 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: opaque marketing idea 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: supple tanning salon double fault (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: Twinkling kitchen faggot firefighter (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: chocolate trip striped hyena 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: opaque marketing idea 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: Comical pearl set digit ratio 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: opaque marketing idea 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: razzle-dazzle range 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: opaque marketing idea 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) |