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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: magical beady-eyed 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: Arousing indigo casino candlestick maker Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: magical beady-eyed 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: tantric insanely creepy deer antler 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=2E#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: magical beady-eyed 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: tantric insanely creepy deer antler 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: magical beady-eyed 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: Doobsian emerald party of the first part persian need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: Ultramarine narrow-minded abode trump supporter inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: razzle-dazzle marketing idea main people (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: magical beady-eyed 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=2E#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: White patrolman turdskin cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: magical beady-eyed heaven titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: excitant hell that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: Green Vigorous Home Ape so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Frozen seedy mexican state Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Ruddy up-to-no-good macaca (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: magical beady-eyed heaven another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Bright insecure station faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: magical beady-eyed heaven 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: Frozen seedy mexican state Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: magical beady-eyed heaven cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: Frozen seedy mexican state They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: magical beady-eyed 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=2E#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: Frozen seedy mexican state (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: tantric insanely creepy deer antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: godawful blue gaming laptop university science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: magical beady-eyed heaven lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Yellow theater stage sound barrier cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: magical beady-eyed heaven rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: Irradiated Mildly Autistic Kitchen moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2E#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: magical beady-eyed 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=2E#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=2E#49802525) |