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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| clear prole | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: clear prole 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: Blue double fault station Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: clear prole 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: Puce Low-t Candlestick Maker 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=2Firm#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: clear prole 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: Puce Low-t Candlestick Maker 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: clear prole 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: irradiated out-of-control trump supporter need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: sienna international law enforcement agency national inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Violent Jet Box Office Quadroon (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: clear prole 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=2Firm#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Slate aphrodisiac home useless brakes cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: clear prole titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: High-end bipolar sex offender that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: underhanded french house boistinker so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: fragrant coral parlor private investor Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Silver Boiling Water (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: clear prole another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Light insanely creepy mood faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: clear prole 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: fragrant coral parlor private investor Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: clear prole cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: fragrant coral parlor private investor They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: clear prole 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=2Firm#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: fragrant coral parlor private investor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: Puce Low-t Candlestick Maker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: Exciting parlour voyeur science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: clear prole lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Electric fanboi cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: clear prole rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: mustard slimy police squad range moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Firm#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: clear prole 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=2Firm#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=2Firm#49802525) |