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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: jet learning disabled associate 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: anal volcanic crater dilemma 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: jet learning disabled associate 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: Blue locale gay wizard 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: jet learning disabled associate 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: Blue locale gay wizard 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: jet learning disabled associate 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: Bipolar insanely creepy stage candlestick maker 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: Cordovan overrated nibblets 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: disgusting adventurous locus (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: jet learning disabled associate 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: Vivacious cowardly pistol regret 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: jet learning disabled associate 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: Lilac water buffalo juggernaut 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: garnet hilarious idea he suggested hall 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: wine bat shit crazy pit turdskin 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: Underhanded balding new version (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: jet learning disabled associate 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: appetizing place of business 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: jet learning disabled associate 🤔🤔🤔 (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: wine bat shit crazy pit turdskin 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: jet learning disabled associate 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: wine bat shit crazy pit turdskin 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: jet learning disabled associate 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: wine bat shit crazy pit turdskin (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: Blue locale gay wizard (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: fluffy boltzmann 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: jet learning disabled associate 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: free-loading piazza double fault 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: jet learning disabled associate 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: carmine hateful church building pisswyrm 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: jet learning disabled associate 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) |