n
The use of words incompatible with or contrary to the speaker's meaning.
adj
Abbreviation of ad hominem. [Of or relating to this kind of fallacious objection.]
n
(rhetoric) Answering the charge of an adversary by a countercharge.
n
One of a pair of anagrams with opposite meanings.
n
(archaic, rare) Synonym of antinomy
n
A word or phrase used in a sense that is different to its literal or usual meaning.
n
(archaic) An antithetic or contrasted statement.
n
A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.
n
A fallacy where a proposition is assumed to be true because it has not yet been proved false, or vice versa.
adj
(of a question) Presenting a false dilemma, or a choice between two things which are not opposites.
n
Alternative spelling of autoantonym [(rare) A word that has two opposing meanings.]
n
Alternative form of autoantonym [(rare) A word that has two opposing meanings.]
n
(rare) A word that has two opposing meanings.
n
(semantics) complementary antonym
v
To make an argument which is illogical, especially one which is overly complex or which improperly uses fine or clever distinctions; to equivocate.
n
(linguistics, philosophy, semantics) One of a pair of words wherein affirmative use of one entails the negative of the other with no gradability.
n
A phrase or expression in which the component words contradict one another, often unintentionally, or are claimed to do so when seen from a particular point of view.
adj
That is itself a contradiction.
n
(linguistics, philosophy, semantics) complementary antonym
n
A word that has two opposing meanings, such as cleave (“stick together” or “split apart”).
adj
(logic) Forming a contraposition.
n
(logic) The inverse of the converse of a given proposition.
adv
(logic) By the inverse of the converse of a given proposition.
n
Alternative spelling of contranym [A word that has two opposing meanings, such as cleave (“stick together” or “split apart”).]
n
(semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
n
(linguistics, philosophy, semantics) Either of a pair of terms that name or describe a single relationship from opposite perspectives, such as parent versus child.
n
(uncountable) intuition that is contrary to what one would expect
adj
(logic, philosophy) That goes against a system of laws, such as the laws of nature.
n
(uncountable) The constant repeating of an opinion after facts have proved it incorrect, especially as a rhetorical tactic.
n
(logic) argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning
n
Any of a set of counterexamples to the principle of alternate possibilities (PAP), which holds that an agent is morally responsible for an action only if they could have acted otherwise.
n
(linguistics, philosophy, semantics) One of a pair of terms that denotes one end of a scale while the other term denotes the other end, such as long and short.
n
The self-referential adage that a task always takes longer than expected, even when Hofstadter's law is taken into account.
n
(pragmatics) An implied meaning that does not semantically entail.
n
(linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
n
A word that has two contradictory meanings; contranym.
n
(ironical) An unmixed reaction, usually opposition.
n
(loosely, sometimes proscribed) A contradiction in terms.
n
(rare) The statistical and psychological observation that a person is prone to prefer Coca-Cola over Pepsi when they have labels, but prone to prefer Pepsi over Coca-Cola when they are unlabelled.
n
(semantics) A term that, together with another term, forms a pair of opposite role names in a relationship, such as parent and child.
n
(logic) A fallacy consisting in reasoning that because something happened, it was therefore bound to happen.
n
(uncountable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect.
Note: Concept clusters like the one above are an experimental OneLook
feature. We've grouped words and phrases into thousands of clusters
based on a statistical analysis of how they are used in writing. Some
of the words and concepts may be vulgar or offensive. The names of the
clusters were written automatically and may not precisely describe
every word within the cluster; furthermore, the clusters may be
missing some entries that you'd normally associate with their
names. Click on a word to look it up on OneLook.
Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!
Today's secret word is 8 letters and means "Interpret or understand meaning of." Can you find it?