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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| Claret piazza legend | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: Claret piazza legend 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: Buff university Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: Claret piazza legend 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: soggy parlor 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=2most#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: Claret piazza legend 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: soggy parlor 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: Claret piazza legend 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 9:24 PM Author: thriller abnormal shrine (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: Claret piazza legend 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=2most#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy marketing idea cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: Claret piazza legend titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: topaz meetinghouse useless brakes that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: passionate house-broken brunch goal in life so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: sable alpha pozpig Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: Claret piazza legend another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: alcoholic kitchen faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Claret piazza legend 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: sable alpha pozpig Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: Claret piazza legend cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: sable alpha pozpig They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: Claret piazza legend 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=2most#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: sable alpha pozpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: soggy parlor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: cocky sandwich science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: Claret piazza legend lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Know-it-all boistinker cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: Claret piazza legend rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: Indigo beady-eyed box office moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2most#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: Claret piazza legend 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=2most#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=2most#49802525) |