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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
| Poppy Old Irish Cottage Senate | 02/15/22 |
| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
| Multi-colored bull headed stain | 02/15/22 |
| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
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| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
| kink-friendly macaca state | 02/15/22 |
| Soul-stirring Center Regret | 02/15/22 |
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| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
| tantric demanding preventive strike love of her life | 02/15/22 |
| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
| irate appetizing mediation | 02/16/22 |
| cracking hospital skinny woman | 02/15/22 |
| Boyish gold black woman kitty cat | 02/15/22 |
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| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
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| Boyish gold black woman kitty cat | 02/15/22 |
| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
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| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
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| Multi-colored bull headed stain | 02/15/22 |
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| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
| Marvelous flirting corner yarmulke | 02/15/22 |
| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
| embarrassed to the bone dark gaping field | 02/15/22 |
| Charismatic dull house | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: Charismatic dull house 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: Poppy Old Irish Cottage Senate 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: Charismatic dull house 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: Multi-colored bull headed stain 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: Charismatic dull house 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: Multi-colored bull headed stain 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: Charismatic dull house 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: kink-friendly macaca state 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: Soul-stirring Center Regret 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: Passionate sweet tailpipe (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: Charismatic dull house 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: tantric demanding preventive strike love of her life 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: Charismatic dull house 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: irate appetizing mediation 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: cracking hospital skinny woman 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: Boyish gold black woman kitty cat 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: frisky translucent tanning salon turdskin (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: Charismatic dull house 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: Maroon Jet-lagged Public Bath New Version 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: Charismatic dull house 🤔🤔🤔 (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: Boyish gold black woman kitty cat 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: Charismatic dull house 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: Boyish gold black woman kitty cat 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: Charismatic dull house 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: Boyish gold black woman kitty cat (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: Multi-colored bull headed stain (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: diverse location 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: Charismatic dull house 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: Marvelous flirting corner yarmulke 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: Charismatic dull house 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: embarrassed to the bone dark gaping field 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: Charismatic dull house 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) |