Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of contranym.
Etymologies
- contra- + -onym. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The word contronym also the synonym antagonym is used to refer to words that, by some freak of language evolution, are their own antonyms.”
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“Another example of a contronym might be a word that has one meaning in one dialect and the opposite meaning in another dialect.”
“Such a perplexing word might be called a contronym, using the prefix contra - (from the Latin contra meaning ` against '), or possibly a contradictonym.”
“One of the more curious phenomena of language is the contronym also called an “antagonym”, which is when a word has come to represent two opposite meanings.”
“In New Zealand English nowadays, a "dairy" is a convenience store, although this is not an example of a contronym.”
“Google search for “contronym” (the fancy word for a word which means one thing as well as its opposite) and see how many there are.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘contronym’.
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Word Words
This used to be my nym list, but there are so many words about words, I think it's time to expand and open.
acronym, antonym, aptronym, autoantonym, autonym, bacronym, capitonym, contranym, contronym, eponym, exonym, heteronym and 120 more...
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[Open] Words about Words
Pachysandra also has an open “Words about Words” list.* (There are over a dozen other identically named lists, but they’re all closed.)
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avawake's list
elpis, transient, anon, remeet, orerry, fitfull, benediction, infinitum, ad, ananym, halcyon, bird and 93 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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favorites of a linguaphile
some good ones.
phrenology, liminal, heteronormativity, epicurian, psychomachy, heuristic, restive, ideological state..., solipsism, entrainment, manichaeism, contronym and 4 more...
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Literary Vocab
literary terminology
allegorical, analogous, allusion, aphorism, antithetical, archaism, criticaster, dirge, doggerel, epitaph, euphonious, found poem and 34 more...
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Sheldonfarrell's Words
tarboosh, talaria, rumply, pineappley, rotogravure, table stakes, carnie, tableau vivant, trebuchet, pince-nez, mojibake, portmanteau and 2 more...
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List of onyms
womonym, typonym, troponym, trionym, toponym, tetronym, teknonym, taxonym, tautonym, Synonym, sideronym, retronym and 78 more...
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dbca's Words
jeremiad, unto, sundry, lugubrious, fob, cromulent, foozle, eremite, factotum, guttle, toparch, comether and 20 more...
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Words That Wordie Has Taught Me
New words that I've learned on Wordie.
contronym, callipygian, apostate, nyctophobia, transliteration, copyleft, mudita, inchoate, manualism, ithyphallic, diacritics, nastygram and 26 more...
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word categories - not just -nyms
I seem to run into a lot of these words. This is probably because I hang out at places like wordie. :) It's funny that there is five other words that mean the same thing as contronym. It just goes ...
contronym, janus word, auto-antonym, autantonym, antagonym, self-antonym, portmanteau, blend, frankenword, nonce word, neologism, coinage and 5 more...
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Kirk's Words
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Thats a Word's Word
Words that classify other words or are used to describe words.
antilogy, enantionymy, contronym, catarrh, aplomb, reify, helicon, somnambulant, helot, prelapsarian
Tweets
Looking for tweets for contronym.
mialuthien See autoantonym. Jul 18, 2008