Know any more good contronyms

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@dalehileman,

Now I understand, Dale.

I'll explain presently. If Contrex or McTag beats me to it, that's okay.

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@dalehileman,

Do you care about idiomatic usage? I was thinking the one popular 'fully sick' meaning 'very good' . Prolly not.

Possible is trending towards impossible, often used for highly improbable

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@hingehead,

Oh that's fine, thank you Head by all means. However must be very new

http://onelook.com/?w=fully+sick&ls=a

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@hingehead,

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Possible is trending towards impossible, often used for highly improbable

It's always been reflective of that range, Hinge. Impossible is zero percent, possible starts above zero and ranges upward from there.

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Sometimes Brits will say that something is "possible" but the intended meaning carries a hidden prefix "only just" or a suffix "over my dead body". It all depends on the tone of voice.

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@contrex,

I myself interested mainly in exact opposites though of course all please feel free to contribute marginal examples

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@contrex,

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Sometimes Brits will say that something is "possible" but the intended meaning carries a hidden prefix "only just" or a suffix "over my dead body". It all depends on the tone of voice.

Damn smart people those Brits. I sure wish we could learn to use the English language they way they have.

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@JTT,

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I sure wish we could learn to use the English language they way they have.

Me too JTT. Interesting to note that English and Russian have the most words so if you can't say it in one of these tongues then you can't say it

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@dalehileman,

Thanks to OneLook.com

discursive

PRONUNCIATION:
(dis-KUHR-siv)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Jumping from topic to topic; rambling.
2. Proceeding logically, using reason or argument rather than emotion.

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@dalehileman,

Meditation used to mean thinking hard about something, now means not thinking at all

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Well I'll be, someone wrote an article about them:

http://theweek.com/article/index/242225/14-words-that-are-their-own-opposites

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@hingehead,

Thanks Hinge for that link

It's a wonder isn't it, what a burden on the poor esl

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Not quite a contronym but

Wake is either a call to end sleep or the celebration of the start of the eternal sleep.

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