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The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
Opposition Party (Northern U.S.) (1854–1858), a Northern anti-slavery party absorbed by the Republican Party Opposition Party (Southern U.S.) (1858–1860), a Southern anti-secession party just before the Civil War
Stand in Opposition (imprints in front of Old City Hall, Boston). In politics, the opposition comprises one or more political parties or other organized groups that are opposed to the government (or, in American English, the administration), party or group in political control of a city, region, state, country or other political body.
“OP” and “OPP” can mean a lot of different things ... and your teens might define it differently than you do. According to Urban Dictionary, “OP” can mean “original post” or ...
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]
Straw man – an argument that is a logical fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. Studia humanitatis – humanistic studies deemed indispensable in Renaissance-era education; rhetoric, poetics, ethics, politics. Syllogism – a type of valid argument that states if the first two claims are true, then the conclusion is ...
The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man"), instead of the opponent's proposition.
Former first lady of the United States; former U.S. secretary of state; former U.S. senator from New York; Trump's opponent whom he defeated in the 2016 United States presidential election: Crooked Hillary [1] (retired) [10] Lyin' Hillary [34] [35] Beautiful Hillary [36] Leakin' James Comey [37] James Comey