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antiphrastical

antiphrastical adjective: antiphrastic.

Adjective

antiphrastical (comparative more antiphrastical, superlative most antiphrastical)

  1. (rhetoric) Antiphrastic.
    • We are now beginning to let ourselves be fooled no longer by the arrogant antiphrastical recriminations of good society in favour of the very thing it sets aside, ignores, smothers, or destroys; we know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader...1977, Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”, in Image, Music, Text, Fontana, page 148

Forms of antiphrastical

comparativemore antiphrastical
superlativemost antiphrastical

Questions about antiphrastical

What does antiphrastical mean?
Antiphrastical means antiphrastic.
What part of speech is antiphrastical?
Antiphrastical is an adjective.

Words near antiphrastical in the dictionary

  1. antiphotons
  2. antiphrase
  3. antiphrases
  4. antiphrasis
  5. antiphrastic
  6. antiphrastical
  7. antiphrastically
  8. antiphthisic
  9. antiphthisical
  10. antiphthisics
  11. antiphylloxeric

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