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Oxymoron

발음 /ɒksɪˈmɔːɹɒn/ · 품사 명사 (noun)

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한국어 뜻

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영어 정의

(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect..

의미별 영어 정의

(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
(loosely, sometimes proscribed) A contradiction in terms.

예문

In Oxymoron jarring phrases join And terms opposed in harmony combine.

For Theodor Adorno and his colleagues at the Frankfurt School who coined the term, "culture industry" was an oxymoron, intended to set up a critical contrast between the exploitative, repetitive mode of industrial mass production under capitalism and the associations of transformative power and aesthetico-moral transcendence that the concept of culture carried in the 1940s, when it still meant "high" culture.

During the past few years, some 200 class-action suits have been filed against food manufacturers, charging them with misuse of the adjective in marketing such edible oxymorons as “natural” Cheetos Puffs, “all-natural” Sun Chips, “all-natural” Naked Juice, “100 percent all-natural” Tyson chicken nuggets and so forth.

“Stable inflation is an oxymoron because it means it’s not stable,” Shelton told CNN in a recent interview.

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oxymoron 반의어

Oxymoron 사용 팁

oxymoron의 의미, 어조와 문법이 전체 문장에 맞을 때 사용하세요. 동의어라도 모든 문장에서 바로 바꿔 쓸 수 있는 것은 아닙니다.

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oxymoron의 뜻은 무엇인가요?

현재 검증된 한국어 뜻은 준비 중이며 영어 정의는 “(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.”입니다.

oxymoron의 동의어는 무엇인가요?

문장 속 의미에 따라 가까운 동의어가 달라집니다.

oxymoron의 반의어는 무엇인가요?

가능한 반의어는 pleonasm, redundancy입니다.

oxymoron를 문장에서 어떻게 쓰나요?