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Figure of speech joining contradictory terms
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oxymoron
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bear with me while I unravel this seeming oxymoron . ▪ Compassionate capitalism is not an oxymoron . ▪ New public art outside of the gallery is something of an oxymoron since ironically most art collections are public. ▪ This ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An oxymoron (usual plural oxymorons , less commonly the Greek-style oxymora ) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory, but which contain a concealed point. Oxymorons appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oxymoron \Ox`y*mo"ron\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ???, fr. ??? pointedly foolish; 'oxy`s sharp + mwro`s foolish.] (Rhet.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.
Usage examples of oxymoron.
Gorgas fell silent, digesting the remark, which was tautology and oxymoron wrapped into one.
The less skilled, if that was not an oxymoron in the call-in psychic hotline business, quickly dropped off-line when he started talking about Interlopers that inhabited natural objects such as trees and rocks.
They had nothing to give up in the first place, for everybody else this love thy neighbor as thyself s a plain oxymoron, turned the whole country into a cradle of hypocrisy.
Looking at her for some reason made him think of an oxymoron his father used to quote when his mother was agitated about something trivial.
A government agent doing good was in his experience the most fundamental of oxymorons.
It was that there be an oxymoron strip, run by a pretty ugly stupid genius named Mistress Mann, who makes oxymorons literal.
This new voice was much higher in pitch and reedier in tone than Ralph's, did not sound even vaguely canine, and had no accent at all—Southern Florida Standard English, if that isn't an oxymoron.