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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: big-titted deep heaven 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: burgundy mood 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: big-titted deep heaven 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: grizzly curious wrinkle 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: big-titted deep heaven 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: grizzly curious wrinkle 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: big-titted deep heaven 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: aqua titillating school cafeteria doctorate 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: electric shrine 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: Bronze vibrant philosopher-king police squad (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: big-titted deep heaven 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: Dashing citrine state 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: big-titted deep heaven 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: Mauve Racy Cruise Ship Ratface 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: Azure range faggotry 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: galvanic green stead sandwich 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: fantasy-prone 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: big-titted deep heaven 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: marvelous base 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: big-titted deep heaven 🤔🤔🤔 (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: galvanic green stead sandwich 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: big-titted deep heaven 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: galvanic green stead sandwich 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: big-titted deep heaven 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: galvanic green stead sandwich (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: grizzly curious wrinkle (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: Tan Supple Ticket Booth 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: big-titted deep heaven 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: Pale school 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: big-titted deep heaven 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: bearded walnut location telephone 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: big-titted deep heaven 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) |