Synonyms for malapropism
- corruption
- exploitation
- harm
- maltreatment
- mistreatment
- prostitution
- squandering
- waste
- barbarism
- catachresis
- desecration
- dissipation
- ill-treatment
- injury
- misapplication
- perversion
- profanation
- solecism
- abusage
- cruel treatment
- misemployment
- misusage
- rough handling
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Antonyms for malapropism
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WORD ORIGIN
1826, from Mrs. Malaprop, character in Sheridan's play "The Rivals" (1775), noted for her ridiculous misuse of large words (e.g. "contagious countries" for "contiguous countries"), her name coined from malapropos.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR MALAPROPISM
barbarism
nouncrudity, savagery, especially in speechfigure of speech
nounturn of expression- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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