Shes pretty ugly. The freezing heat. A fine mess. Act natural. Accurate rumours.
One good oxymoron is jumbo shrimp. Other examples are painfully nice and business casual.
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oxymoron, oxy= sharp in greek moron=blunt in greek oxymoron=contradiction also noun is a noun :) CK
The oxymoron awfully good means very good. It is an oxymoron because the word "awful" means bad, but in this context it fits next to good.
The antonym of an oxymoron is a tautology. For example: "almost exactly" is an oxymoron. "Tiny little" is a tautology.
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One good oxymoron is jumbo shrimp. Other examples are painfully nice and business casual.
oxymoron, oxy= sharp in greek moron=blunt in greek oxymoron=contradiction also noun is a noun :) CK
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The oxymoron awfully good means very good. It is an oxymoron because the word "awful" means bad, but in this context it fits next to good.
The term 'good insult' is an oxymoron.
The antonym of an oxymoron is a tautology. For example: "almost exactly" is an oxymoron. "Tiny little" is a tautology.
The term is an oxymoron, which pairs apparently contradictory terms to create a specific, often poetic meaning. Examples include deafening silence, hated affection, or mercy killing.
The dictionary defines oxymoron as a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. Examples would be; Jumbo Shrimp. Military Intelligence. There are many more examples here; http://www.oxymorons.info/
Some examples for oxymorons could be the little giants, pretty ugly, In a sentence, you could say that she was 'a little big'.
Death and Love. Usually one does not associate love with death
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