Antiphrastic
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antiphrasis (ænˈtɪfrəsɪs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| rhetoric the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal one, esp for ironic effect | |
| [C16: via Late Latin from Greek, from | |
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Antiphrastic
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Word Origin & History
antiphrasis
1530s, from L., from Gk. antiphrasis, from antiphrazein "to express (something) by the opposite, from anti- + phrazein "to consider, to express" (root of phrase).
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