• words that sound like opposites but mean the same
    • fictitious and factitious
    • valuable and invaluable
    • thaw and unthaw
    • regardless and irregardless
    • hot and cold (when being asked how hot/cold it is outside, in the sense that either would yield the same answer)
  • words that sound like the same but mean opposite things
    • colloquialisms such as "sick," "wicked," and "the shit" (as opposed to just plain "shit")
    • the phrase "nothing is worse than..." (that thing is the worst thing in the world vs. having that thing is better than having literally nothing)
    • hard (intensely) vs. hardly (barely at all)
  • words that are also their antonym (contranyms/auto-antonyms)
mar 25 2012 ∞
aug 19 2015 +