oxymoron

Definition of oxymoron

Nouns

conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
Type of:
figure, figure of speech, image, trope
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Vocabulary Lists for oxymoron

Aggregate »(1997 words)
  • prescient
  • iniquity
  • disenfranchisement
  • expropriation
  • triumvirate

Word List 1 »(655 words)
  • emend
  • ameliorate
  • meliorate
  • facile
  • Stygian

Literary Terms And Perchance The RUB »(289 words)
  • eye rhyme
  • Petrarchan sonnet
  • common meter
  • Elizabethan sonnet
  • denotative

Ethan Words »(288 words)
  • denounce
  • entail
  • myriad
  • reproach
  • repudiate

Gre List 4 »(226 words)
  • abeyance
  • ablution
  • abrade
  • adage
  • adumbrate

Favorite Words »(124 words)
  • ricochet
  • clavicle
  • etymology
  • equivocate
  • decoupage

word list 1 »(114 words)
  • garrulous
  • filibuster
  • prevarication
  • astute
  • brazen

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