antiphrasis meaning

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antiphrasis (noun): the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony).

Definition of antiphrasis

  1. the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)

    Type of: rhetorical device

Scrabble score: 16 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with AN · words ending in IS · 11-letter words

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