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malapropoism

malapropoism is the obsolete form of malapropism.

Meaning of malapropism

Noun

malapropism (countable and uncountable, plural malapropisms)

  1. (uncountable) The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar-sounding one.
    • The script employed malapropism to great effect.
  2. (countable) An instance of such use.
    • The translator matched every malapropism in the original with one from his own language.
    Synonyms:
    malaprop

Forms of malapropoism

pluralmalapropoisms

Origin of malapropoism

From malapropos + -ism.

Questions about malapropoism

What is malapropoism the obsolete form of?
Malapropoism is the obsolete form of malapropism.

Words near malapropoism in the dictionary

  1. malapropisms
  2. malapropist
  3. malapropistic
  4. malapropistically
  5. malapropists
  6. malapropoism
  7. malapropoisms
  8. malapropos
  9. malapropped
  10. malapropping
  11. malaprops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malapropoism (page history and authors); malapropism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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