oxymorous
oxymorous adjective: synonym of oxymoronic.
Adjective
oxymorous
- Synonym of oxymoronic.
- The great Teacher was well aware of this in his choice of parables (Matt. 13; Luk. 11: 1—13 et al.), gnomes (Matt. 5), oxymorous statements (Matt. 5: 29, 30), every day incidents and events (Luk. 10, 25—37), common figures (Joh. 16: 20, 21), an easy , unscholastic style of speaking, rapid change of...1905, Tidskrift för Teologi och Kyrkliga Frågor, pages 133–134
- I met a graceful English maid / Upon the Shwe Dagon / Her age was twenty-one, she said, / Her hair was sort of roan, / She had a soulful tearful air, / (It may have been a ruse,) / And on her feet she wore a pair / Of oxymorous shoes / […]1911, J. M. S., The Pagoda and the Poet and Other Verses, British Burma Press, page 23
- Synonyms:
- oxymoronic
Examples of oxymorous in a sentence
- The terms are oxymorous, of course, and an oxymoron may be regarded as a condensed paradox; but it is just the paradoxical situation of man with which the poet is concerned.1964, Lawrence Leo Stahlberger, The Symbolic System of Majakovskij, Mouton & Co., page 76:
- […] usual biological allusions, like "lungs." "Golden tears" is oxymorous.1966, Romanus Nnagbo Egudu, The Matter and Manner of Modern West African Poetry in English: A Study of Okigbo, Clark, Awoonor-Williams and...
- Philosophy can achieve its ultimate goal only by becoming “popularized” or, in Cieszkowski’s oxymorous expression, “Sie muss sich in die Tiefe verflachen.”1979, Louis Dupré, “Rationality in Marx’s Concept of History”, in Theodore F. Geraets, editor, Rationality To-day (Collection Philosophica...
- Agreement even seemed to cheer him up, and from there our discussion began to take on a more relaxed and customary shape and to gravitate towards our usual oxymorous small-talk on large topics.1984, Amanda Prantera, Strange Loop, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton, Inc., →ISBN, page 75:
Synonyms of oxymorous
Questions about oxymorous
- What does oxymorous mean?
- Oxymorous means synonym of oxymoronic.
- How do you use oxymorous in a sentence?
- The terms are oxymorous, of course, and an oxymoron may be regarded as a condensed paradox; but it is just the paradoxical situation of man with which the poet is concerned.
- What part of speech is oxymorous?
- Oxymorous is an adjective.
Words near oxymorous in the dictionary
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