Tuesday, 17 April 2007

Contronyms

A synonym is a word that means the same as another. An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another. A contronym is a word that, by some freak of language evolution, are their own antonyms.

Fun With Words has some examples of contronyms.

2 comment(s):

Joel said...

A synonym is a word that is similar in meaning to the one that you can't spell.

Anonymous said...

Yes, that's another way of looking at it. :)