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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| chestnut beady-eyed sneaky criminal | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| magenta startling pocket flask kitchen | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| magenta startling pocket flask kitchen | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| tantric address selfie | 02/15/22 |
| odious chocolate ape legal warrant | 02/15/22 |
| Narrow-minded Razzle Prole | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| Walnut Toilet Seat Trust Fund | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| underhanded jap | 02/16/22 |
| Demanding Rigor Parlour | 02/15/22 |
| heady onyx organic girlfriend | 02/15/22 |
| hilarious lettuce | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| Cowardly big crackhouse | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| heady onyx organic girlfriend | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| heady onyx organic girlfriend | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| heady onyx organic girlfriend | 02/16/22 |
| magenta startling pocket flask kitchen | 02/15/22 |
| bull headed space sound barrier | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| passionate slimy ceo | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| zippy rehab | 02/15/22 |
| Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house | 02/15/22 |
| oomox | 04/07/26 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: chestnut beady-eyed sneaky criminal 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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: magenta startling pocket flask kitchen 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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: magenta startling pocket flask kitchen 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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: tantric address selfie 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: odious chocolate ape legal warrant 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: Narrow-minded Razzle Prole (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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: Walnut Toilet Seat Trust Fund 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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: underhanded jap 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: Demanding Rigor Parlour 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: heady onyx organic girlfriend 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: hilarious lettuce (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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: Cowardly big crackhouse 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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 🤔🤔🤔 (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: heady onyx organic girlfriend 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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: heady onyx organic girlfriend 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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: heady onyx organic girlfriend (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: magenta startling pocket flask kitchen (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: bull headed space sound barrier 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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: passionate slimy ceo 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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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: zippy rehab 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: Bipolar disrespectful step-uncle's house 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) |