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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| khaki kitchen | 02/15/22 |
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| khaki kitchen | 02/15/22 |
| Up-to-no-good Psychic Heaven | 02/15/22 |
| khaki kitchen | 02/15/22 |
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| khaki kitchen | 02/15/22 |
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| wild indigo old irish cottage point | 02/15/22 |
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| khaki kitchen | 02/15/22 |
| Laughsome trump supporter | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: khaki kitchen 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: Drab curious pervert office 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: khaki kitchen 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: Up-to-no-good Psychic Heaven 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: khaki kitchen 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: Up-to-no-good Psychic Heaven 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: khaki kitchen 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: Cracking brindle private investor home 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: Pea-brained apoplectic multi-billionaire 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: Maniacal corn cake sanctuary (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: khaki kitchen 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: Cyan low-t mad cow disease circlehead 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: khaki kitchen 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: Marvelous Mischievous Brethren 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: wild indigo old irish cottage point 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: Irradiated Coffee Pot Mother 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: vibrant dopamine (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: khaki kitchen 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: navy locus 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: khaki kitchen 🤔🤔🤔 (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: Irradiated Coffee Pot Mother 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: khaki kitchen 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: Irradiated Coffee Pot Mother 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: khaki kitchen 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: Irradiated Coffee Pot Mother (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: Up-to-no-good Psychic Heaven (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: Metal light cruise ship 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: khaki kitchen 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: Laughsome trump supporter 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: khaki kitchen 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: infuriating plaza 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: khaki kitchen 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) |