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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| navy curious resort milk | 02/15/22 |
| multi-colored demanding area potus | 02/15/22 |
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| bearded impressive senate athletic conference | 02/15/22 |
| navy curious resort milk | 02/15/22 |
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| navy curious resort milk | 02/15/22 |
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| navy curious resort milk | 02/15/22 |
| excitant elastic band toaster | 02/15/22 |
| navy curious resort milk | 02/15/22 |
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| Vengeful Fragrant Marketing Idea Bawdyhouse | 02/15/22 |
| navy curious resort milk | 02/15/22 |
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| very tactful chest-beating party of the first part | 02/15/22 |
| navy curious resort milk | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: navy curious resort milk 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: multi-colored demanding area potus Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: navy curious resort milk 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: bearded impressive senate athletic conference 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 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: navy curious resort milk 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: bearded impressive senate athletic conference 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: navy curious resort milk 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: mind-boggling home need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: Saffron boyish therapy travel guidebook inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Crawly location immigrant (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: navy curious resort milk 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 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: lemon thriller legend knife cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: navy curious resort milk titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: White federal multi-billionaire heaven that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: vigorous rehab so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: excitant elastic band toaster Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Greedy Racy National (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: navy curious resort milk another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: kink-friendly hilarious locus faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: navy curious resort milk 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: excitant elastic band toaster Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: navy curious resort milk cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: excitant elastic band toaster They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: navy curious resort milk 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 |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: excitant elastic band toaster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: bearded impressive senate athletic conference (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: Vengeful Fragrant Marketing Idea Bawdyhouse science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: navy curious resort milk lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Sepia deer antler cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: navy curious resort milk rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: very tactful chest-beating party of the first part moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: navy curious resort milk 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 |
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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 |