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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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: ungodly legend house 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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: olive galvanic milk abode 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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: olive galvanic milk abode 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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: Razzmatazz Prole Dilemma 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: awkward state 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: histrionic twinkling uncleanness business firm (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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: Thirsty voyeur 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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: Bossy Plaza Partner 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: Cracking National 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: indecent trust fund 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: judgmental gas station liquid oxygen (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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: zippy sticky incel 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: Floppy main people immigrant 🤔🤔🤔 (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: indecent trust fund 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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: indecent trust fund 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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: indecent trust fund (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: olive galvanic milk abode (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: Transparent stage 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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: razzle-dazzle trailer park striped hyena 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: Floppy main people immigrant 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: Hairraiser alcoholic menage hunting ground 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: Floppy main people immigrant 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) |