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oxymoron 音标拼音: [ ,ɑks'im'ɔrɑn]
n. 矛盾修饰法 矛盾修饰法 oxymoron n 1: conjoining contradictory terms ( as in ` deafening silence') Oxymoron \ Ox` y* mo" ron\, n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ???, fr. ??? pointedly foolish; ' oxy` s sharp mwro` s foolish.] ( Rhet.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness. [ 1913 Webster] 54 Moby Thesaurus words for " oxymoron": Gordian knot, absurdity, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, crux, dilemma, disproportion, disproportionateness, enigma, equivocality, equivocation, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hopelessness, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, inconceivability, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, irony, irreconcilability, knot, knotty point, no chance, node, nodus, nonconformability, nonconformity, nonplus, paradox, perplexity, pons asinorum, poser, puzzle, quandary, self- contradiction, teaser, the impossible, unconformability, unconformity, unimaginability, unorthodoxy, unthinkability, vexed question, what cannot be, what cannot happen
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