#auto-antonym

[crescentplanet]

#65 같은 단어, 반대 뜻

[frimleyblogger]

What Is The Origin Of (124)?...

What Is The Origin Of (124)?…

Snob One of the wonders of the English language is how a word can over time change its meaning to become the polar opposite – something I looked at a year or so ago in a series entitled All Change. Today’s word is even more remarkable because snob is what grammarians call an auto-antonym – it has two meanings which are directly contradictory of each other. This may seem surprising because…

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[theyuniversity]

What’s up with contronyms?

A word that has opposite meanings is called a contronym (also spelled contranym), an auto-antonym, or a Janus word.

Here are some contronyms:

To see a longer version of the above list (from fun-with-words), click here.

When you use an contronym in your writing, make sure that you provide your reader with enough context clues to figure out which of the two contradictory meanings you mean.

Otherwise, you’ll be like this scumbag:

Peruse can mean either “to examine carefully” or “to browse casually,” but the above sentence gives no indication of which definition is intended.

Therefore, provide enough context clues so that your intended meaning is clear:

In the second example, we can infer that someone who has set aside six hours to peruse an essay plans “to examine it carefully.” There is no longer any ambiguity.

Context is key. (Right, Jake?) 😧

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[theyuniversity]

Click here for more contronyms (aka contranyms, auto-antonyms, or Janus words).

[theyuniversity]

What's up with contronyms?

A word that means opposite things is called a contronym (also spelled contranym), an auto-antonym, or a Janus word.

Here are some contronyms:

To see a longer version of the above list (from fun-with-words), click here.

When you use an contronym in your writing, make sure that you provide your reader with enough context clues to figure out which of the two contradictory meanings you mean.

Otherwise, you’ll be like this scumbag:

Peruse can mean either “to examine carefully” or “to browse casually,” but the above sentence gives no indication of which definition is intended.

Therefore, provide enough context clues so that your intended meaning is clear:

In the second example, we can infer that someone who has set aside six hours to peruse an essay plans "to examine it carefully." There is no longer any ambiguity.

Context is key.

[sonofwalt]

Thursday Love Poem Throw Back: "Cleaving"

Thursday Love Poem and Throw Back: "Cleaving"

I know my UK friends are already on to Friday where they used to post Flashbacks, before the silly hashtag of #TBT. And while I think Throw Back Thursday was just a trick used to freshen up the classic Flashback Friday, the trick fails for me. As I’ve said before, if you are a fisherman in Pennsylvania (not that I am, but I come from a family of them), throw-backs are fish that were too small to…

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[t3hsiggy]

Go home English, you're drunk

[theyuniversity]

You made a post about "peruse" being a word with opposite meanings. "Cleave" and "clip" are two other words like that. Is there a term to describe words that have two exact-opposite meanings without changing the spelling or pronunciation? Are there any other words like that? Please don't concede that "literally" is of this category. Thanks!

Good question!

A word that means opposite things is called a contranym (also spelled contronym), an auto-antonym, or a Janus word.

Other contranyms include the following:

To see a longer version of the above list (from fun-with-words), click here.

When you use an auto-antonym in your writing, make sure that you provide your reader with enough context clues to figure out which of the two contradictory meanings you mean.

Otherwise, you’ll be like this scumbag:

Peruse can mean either “to examine carefully” or “to browse casually,” but the above sentence gives no indication of which definition is intended.

Therefore, provide enough context clues so that your intended meaning is clear:

Cheers.