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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| comical french business firm | 02/15/22 |
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| Racy milk | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: comical french business firm 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: Charismatic Den Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: comical french business firm 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: Racy milk 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=2,5#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: comical french business firm 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: Racy milk 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: comical french business firm 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: Lascivious police squad degenerate need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: Curious flesh piazza inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Splenetic son of senegal (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: comical french business firm 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=2,5#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: smoky laser beams cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: comical french business firm titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: stirring yellow school that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: Very tactful cracking trust fund so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Burgundy theatre Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Thirsty henna public bath (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: comical french business firm another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: dark exciting heaven digit ratio faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: comical french business firm 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: Burgundy theatre Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: comical french business firm cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: Burgundy theatre They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: comical french business firm 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=2,5#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: Burgundy theatre (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: Racy milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: coral state coffee pot science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: comical french business firm lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Federal lemon native cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: comical french business firm rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: onyx odious dysfunction wagecucks moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2,5#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: comical french business firm 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=2,5#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=2,5#49802525) |