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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| cruel-hearted karate point | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point 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: charismatic ultramarine scourge upon the earth Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point 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: Judgmental bossy friendly grandma 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=2Elisa#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point 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: Judgmental bossy friendly grandma 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: cruel-hearted karate point 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: bearded bistre spot immigrant need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: Swashbuckling Crusty Coldplay Fan Garrison inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Fragrant Location (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point 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=2Elisa#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: laughsome base cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: Umber den that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: heady violent library so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Sticky associate Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: cowardly wine black woman trailer park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Crimson cumskin faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: Sticky associate Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: Sticky associate They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point 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=2Elisa#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: Sticky associate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: Judgmental bossy friendly grandma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: racy anal market science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Topaz state mad-dog skullcap cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: vigorous area son of senegal moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Elisa#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: cruel-hearted karate point 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=2Elisa#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=2Elisa#49802525) |