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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal | 02/15/22 |
| Disturbing Gas Station Chad | 02/15/22 |
| Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal | 02/15/22 |
| bespoke really tough guy | 02/15/22 |
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| mind-boggling ebony property | 02/15/22 |
| Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal | 02/15/22 |
| Duck-like Brunch Doctorate | 02/15/22 |
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| pearly institution toilet seat | 02/16/22 |
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| grizzly fiercely-loyal plaza | 02/15/22 |
| Internet-worthy state | 02/15/22 |
| Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal | 02/15/22 |
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| bespoke really tough guy | 02/15/22 |
| outnumbered public bath legal warrant | 02/15/22 |
| Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal | 02/15/22 |
| Dull Bateful Stead Psychic | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: Disturbing Gas Station Chad 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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: bespoke really tough guy 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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: bespoke really tough guy 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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: Comical stage macaca 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: pink sticky ratface hospital 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: mind-boggling ebony property (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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: Duck-like Brunch Doctorate 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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: pearly institution toilet seat 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: Electric mother chapel 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: grizzly fiercely-loyal plaza 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: Internet-worthy state (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: aphrodisiac aqua dysfunction 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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: grizzly fiercely-loyal plaza 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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: grizzly fiercely-loyal plaza 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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: grizzly fiercely-loyal plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: bespoke really tough guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: outnumbered public bath legal warrant 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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: Dull Bateful Stead Psychic 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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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: Splenetic flatulent mood 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: Ruby Voyeur Son Of Senegal 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 |