oxymoronic

Examples

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• The very mention of ecumenism in the same sentence with the word "evangelicals" may seem oxymoronic, at least at first glance.

  Academic text (2014)

• Is the oxymoronic combination one from folk or fairytale with its prince in disguise?

  Academic text (2006)

• And I want nothing to do with that oxymoronic behavior.

  Blog text (2)

• So Johnny has this very oxymoronic personality make up.

  Chris Williamson

• Yet the practice of art history provides an oxymoronic twist on this by now common characterization.

  Academic text (2002)

• What is clear, though, is that this dilemma must be addressed before the term social work administrator becomes oxymoronic.

  Academic text (2007)

• Lindsay aptly calls them "oxymoronic citizen refugees."

  Academic text (2010)

• Saraband is a paradoxical, oxymoronic embodiment of fragmented order.

  Academic text (2009)

• Clearly, such a claim has an oxymoronic appeal but also hints at the conflicted history of disciplinary paradigms of the world.

  Academic text (2007)

• Shakespeare, through repetition, has thus arrived at the oxymoronic reality of the vexed still, still vexed phenomenon that will recur in The Tempest.

  Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

C

contradictory

vsoxymoronic

72 6.1

Showing ideas or statements that do not agree and cannot both be true

applies to a single phrase that literally pairs opposites together

P

paradoxical

vsoxymoronic

15 7.5

Something that seems impossible or wrong but is still true

denotes a short expression that pairs opposites for rhetorical effect

A

antithetical

vsoxymoronic

12 8.4

Directly opposed in beliefs or purpose

refers to one expression that joins opposing terms into a unit

C

conflicting

vsoxymoronic

7 4.2

Having ideas, facts, or feelings that do not agree with each other

is used for a compact construction that combines two opposing words

S

self-contradictory

vsoxymoronic

3 7.0

An idea that does not agree with another idea

focuses instead on one short expression that places opposites side by side

O

oppositive

vsoxymoronic

• Specialized

9.6

Showing a clear difference between two ideas

describes a single expression that fuses two opposing terms together

A

antithetic

vsoxymoronic

9.3

Directly opposite in idea or purpose

describes a compact phrase that combines two opposite ideas

A

antinomic

vsoxymoronic

• Formal

9.9

Involving a conflict between two ideas or rules

names a brief expression that joins contradictory terms within itself

How Contradictory

contradictory

72 6.1

oxymoronic

• Literature

2 8.1

paradoxical

15 7.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology