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Definitions for Oxymoron

[1] a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
[2] rhetoric an epigrammatic effect, by which contradictory terms are used in conjunction living death ; fiend angelical

Words related to Oxymoron

allegory, allusion, analogy, anticlimax, antithesis, bathos, comparison, conceit, device, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, metaphor

Words nearby Oxymoron

oxyheme, oxyhemochromogen, oxyhemoglobin, oxyhydrogen, oxymetazoline, oxymoron, oxymorphone, oxymyoglobin, oxyneurine, oxyntic, oxyntic cell

Origin of Oxymoron

1650–60; < Late Latin oxymorum < presumed Greek *oxýmōron, neuter of *oxýmōros sharp-dull, equivalent to oxý(s ) sharp (see oxy-1) + mōrós dull (see moron)

Other words from Oxymoron

ox·y·mo·ron·ic [ok-see-muh -ron -ik] /ˌɒk si məˈrɒn ɪk/ , adjective

Word origin for Oxymoron

C17: via New Latin from Greek oxumōron, from oxus sharp + mōros stupid

Synonyms for Oxymoron

adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking