About The Word Oxymoron
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Oxymoron
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What's The Definition Of Oxymoron?
[n] conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
Synonyms | Synonyms for Oxymoron: Related Terms | Find terms related to Oxymoron: absurdity | ambiguity | ambivalence | antinomy | asymmetry | crux | dilemma | disproportion | disproportionateness | enigma | equivocality | equivocation | Gordian knot | heresy | heterodoxy | heterogeneity | hopelessness | impossibility | impossible | impossibleness | incoherence | incommensurability | incompatibility | inconceivability | incongruity | inconsistency | inconsonance | irony | irreconcilability | knot | knotty point | no chance | node | nodus | nonconformability | nonconformity | nonplus | paradox | perplexity | pons asinorum | poser | puzzle | quandary | self-contradiction | teaser | the impossible | unconformability | unconformity | unimaginability | unorthodoxy | unthinkability | vexed question | what cannot be | what cannot happen See Also | figure | figure of speech | image | trope Oxymoron In Webster's Dictionary \Ox`y*mo"ron\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ???, fr. ??? pointedly
foolish; ??? sharp + ??? foolish.] (Rhet.)
A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is
added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.
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