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anti-describing something as 'against' or 'opposed to' another Greek ἀντί (antí), against antibody, antipsychotic: apo-away, separated from, derived from Greek ἀπό (apó) apoptosis, apocrine: archi-first, primitive Greek ἀρχι-(arkhi-) archinephron arsen(o)-of or pertaining to a male; masculine Greek ἀρσενικός (arsenikós)
For example, anti-languages borrow words from other languages, create unconventional compounds, or utilize new suffixes for existing words. Anti-languages may also change words using metathesis, reversal of sounds or letters (e.g., apple to elppa), or substituting their consonants. [9] Therefore, anti-languages are distinct and unique and are ...
In rhetoric, antithesis is a figure of speech involving the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure. [7] The term "antithesis" in rhetoric goes back to the 4th century BC, for example Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1410a, in which he gives a series of ...
English words may consist of multiple prefixes: anti-pseudo-classicism (containing both an anti-prefix and a pseudo-prefix). In English, all prefixes are derivational . This contrasts with English suffixes, which may be either derivational or inflectional .
When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings depending on context. For example, Spanish dichoso [ 4 ] originally meant "fortunate, blissful" as in tierra dichosa , "fortunate land", but it acquired the ironic and colloquial meaning of "infortunate, bothersome" as in ¡Dichosas moscas ...
An anti-joke is similar in nature to a dad joke in that it has two parts: a setup and punchline. However, the punchline is purposefully unfunny; it’s often sarcastic and obvious after thinking ...
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A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.