OXYMORON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: oxymora   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("oxymoron" is a kind of...):

figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)

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