Oxymoron Examples
Oxymoron (from Greek oxys = sharp; moron, neuter of monos = foolish): figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined .
- Summer cold
- secret open
- larger half
- clearly confused
- act naturally
- alone together
- Hell's Angels
- found missing
- liquid gas
- civil engineer
- deafening silence
- seriously funny
- living dead
- Microsoft Works
- military intelligence
- jumbo shrimp
- Advanced BASIC
- tragic comedy
- unbiased opinion
- virtual reality
- definite maybe
- original copies
- pretty ugly
- same difference
- plastic glasses
- almost exactly
- constant variable
- even odds
- minor crisis
- extinct life
- genuine imitation
- exact estimate
- only choice
- freezer burn
- free love
- working holiday
- rolling stop
- Great Depression
- free trade
- peacekeeper missile
- sweet tart
- crash landing
- now then
- sweet sorrow
- student teacher
- silent scream
- taped live
- alone together
- good grief
- tight slacks
- living dead
- near miss
- light tanks
- old news
- hot chili
- criminal justice
- peace force
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