Home > Word of the Day
Word of the Day: Autoantonym or Contronym
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 | Word of the Day |
contronym - A word that can be used as its own antonym.
consult - ask for advice, give advice
custom - usual, special
rent - buy use of, sell use of
cleave - separate, join
Found at Organizations and Markets. Some of the examples aren’t 100% perfect (custom, for instance), but it’s an interesting idea. More examples at Wikipedia.
Previous WOTD - Wild Goose Chase
No comments yet.
Leave a comment
Search
A Word from Our Sponsors
Latest Comments
- Follow-up with pics: converting raw speaker wires to banana plugs (1 comments)
- Shannon Love on Problems with Peer-reviewed Science (2 comments)
- Apple insanely great device is an overpriced iPod Touch (5 comments)
- OK, but who hasn’t wanted to break Jim Treacher’s knees? (1 comments)
- Infrared Photography Links (4 comments)
- I saw the “G.I. Joe” movie (3 comments)
Subscribe
RSS Posts Feed
Archives by Date
Archives by Category
- A&E
- Best Of
- Blogging
- Comic Books
- Dancing Baloney
- Dear Lazyweb
- E-commerce
- East Tennessee
- Economics
- Environment
- European Union
- Family Tree - Jones Side
- Family Tree - Moore Side
- Food & Drink
- Funny Ha-Ha
- Guns
- Health Care
- Holidays
- Home Life
- Johnia Berry
- Macular Degeneration
- Media Behaving Badly
- Middle East
- Misc
- Municipal Wi-Fi
- News
- Nifty
- Photos
- Political Survival Kit
- Politics
- Polls
- Population
- PSAs
- Quotes
- Rocky Top Brigade
- Science
- Social Security
- Star Wars
- Tech
- The Usual Suspects
- Travel
- True Crime
- Word of the Day