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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| Slimy hominid garrison | 02/15/22 |
| spectacular useless brakes fanboi | 02/15/22 |
| Slimy hominid garrison | 02/15/22 |
| Arousing Locale Jap | 02/15/22 |
| Slimy hominid garrison | 02/15/22 |
| Arousing Locale Jap | 02/15/22 |
| Slimy hominid garrison | 02/15/22 |
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| histrionic lake set indirect expression | 02/15/22 |
| useless property rigor | 02/15/22 |
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| Slimy hominid garrison | 02/15/22 |
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| mustard blathering public bath scourge upon the earth | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison 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: spectacular useless brakes fanboi Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison 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: Arousing Locale Jap 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=2Reputation#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison 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: Arousing Locale Jap 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: Slimy hominid garrison 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: bateful spot need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: rusted passionate shrine inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Puce area (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison 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=2Reputation#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Curious bbw location cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: sable heaven that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: histrionic lake set indirect expression so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: useless property rigor Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: laughsome business firm mad cow disease (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: disrespectful sticky hell kitty faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: useless property rigor Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: useless property rigor They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison 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=2Reputation#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: useless property rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: Arousing Locale Jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: Pearly native science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: mustard blathering public bath scourge upon the earth cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: Deranged crackhouse moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: Slimy hominid garrison 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=2Reputation#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=2Reputation#49802525) |