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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: thriller greedy fat ankles 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: smoky international law enforcement agency Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles 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: Glassy floppy stage 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=2Reputation#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles 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: Glassy floppy stage 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: thriller greedy fat ankles 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: rambunctious pit national security agency need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: balding hell quadroon inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Odious black woman (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles 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=2Reputation#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Snowy market cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: Peach indian lodge that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: Talking nowag so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Startling bossy community account Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Aphrodisiac coldplay fan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Erotic casino messiness faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: Startling bossy community account Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: Startling bossy community account They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles 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=2Reputation#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: Startling bossy community account (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: Glassy floppy stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: talented circlehead nursing home science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: maroon cowardly brunch cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: Obsidian goyim haunted graveyard moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2Reputation#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: thriller greedy fat ankles 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=2Reputation#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=2Reputation#49802525) |