Usually means: Using language opposite to literal.
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  1. antiphrastic: Collins English Dictionary
  2. antiphrastic: Wordnik
  3. antiphrastic: Wiktionary
  4. Antiphrastic, antiphrastic: Dictionary.com
  5. Antiphrastic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Antiphrastic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. antiphrastic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. antiphrastic: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Antiphrastic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (antiphrastic)

▸ adjective:  (rhetoric) Of, relating to, or exhibiting antiphrasis.

Similar:
antiphrastical, periphrasic, aposiopetic, antiperistatical, antiphilosophic, apostrophic, paraphrastical, aposiopestic, aphorismical, periphrastic, more...

Opposite:
synonymous, straightforward, literal, sincere

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Similar:
antiphrastical, periphrasic, aposiopetic, antiperistatical, antiphilosophic, apostrophic, paraphrastical, aposiopestic, aphorismical, periphrastic, more...

Opposite:
synonymous, straightforward, literal, sincere



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