Thesaurus / oxymoron
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synonyms for oxymoron
- 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
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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How to use oxymoron in a sentence
Her own lawyer has called her a high-functioning conservatee, which conservatorship experts have noted is an oxymoron in the conservatorship system.
THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING BEHIND AMERICA’S OBSESSION WITH BRITNEY SPEARS’ CONSERVATORSHIPBY ROBIN FIELDSJULY 13, 2021PROPUBLICAThe very notion that we should have come together was an oxymoron.
LUCINDA FRANKS, PULITZER-WINNING JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR, DIES AT 74HARRISON SMITHMAY 6, 2021WASHINGTON POSTBefore you protest that the phrase is an oxymoron, remember that we’re in the midst of a pandemic whose scope we couldn’t have imagined a little over a year ago.
WILL THE PANDEMIC SPAWN A NEW GENRE OF CULT CLASSICS? BARB AND STAR SUGGESTS YESSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKMARCH 6, 2021TIMEAmong scientists, scientific certainty is an oxymoron and the bar for even approaching certainty is extremely high.
IS THERE REALLY A ‘SCIENCE OF READING’ THAT TELLS US EXACTLY HOW TO TEACH KIDS TO READ?VALERIE STRAUSSJANUARY 26, 2021WASHINGTON POSTBeing a progressive safety first marketer shouldn’t be an oxymoron in the current climate — but it is.
AS YOUTUBE ADOPTS NEW STANDARDS, THE TRANSITION FROM BRAND SAFETY TO SUITABILITY IS ACCELERATINGSEB JOSEPHOCTOBER 22, 2020DIGIDAYThat means participatory machine learning is, for now, an oxymoron.
PARTICIPATION-WASHING COULD BE THE NEXT DANGEROUS FAD IN MACHINE LEARNINGAMY NORDRUMAUGUST 25, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWSYNONYM OF THE DAY
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WORDS RELATED TO OXYMORON
- 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.