What is an oximoron?

Answer 1

It is spelled "oxymoron."

It is a figure of speech that produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”

Here are some often-used ones:
alone together
silent scream
living dead
same difference
taped live
tight slacks
pretty ugly
jumbo shrimp
plastic glasses
work party
virtual reality

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Answer 2

An oxymoron is a statement that has contradicting terms. The definition is: "A rhetorical figure in which an epigrammatic effect is created by the conjunction of incongruous or contradictory terms".

Here's a few:

acute dullness · act naturally · Advanced BASIC · airline food · almost exactly · alone together · Amtrak schedule · bittersweet · boring court jester · briefing · British fashion · business ethics · butthead · cafeteria food · calm wind · cardinal sin · casual sex · cheerleading scholarship · childproof · Christian Scientists · civil engineer · clean coal · coal mine safety · computer jock · computer security · clearly ambiguous · clearly confused · clearly misunderstood · comfortably dressed · conservative liberal · conciliation court · constant variable · constructive attitude · corporate conscience · cowardly lion · dangerously safe · deafening silence · definite maybe · deliberately thoughtless · democratic machine · designer jeans · diet ice cream · divorce court · domestic bliss · double solitaire · educational television · effective compassion · essential service · even odds · exact estimate · extensive briefing · extinct life · family vacation · fan fatale · federal budget · fish farm · flexible ethics · found missing · free love · freezer burn · french deodorant · fresh-frozen · friendly fire ·

and more at the following site:

http://www.oxymorons.com/oxymorons.html

Good luck!!

Answer 3

An oximoron is a phrase that cancels itself out. Some are:

Jumbo shrimp (How can something be large and small at the same time?)
loners' club (they're LONERS and in a CLUB, which makes them not loners)

so basically, they are two word paradoxes.

Answer 4

an oximoron is a statement, or a couple of words that usually or steriotipically contradict each other such as "Smart Blonde" "Hot Snow"

Answer 5

AN OXIMORON IS A PHRASE OF TWO PARADOXES TOGETHER. fOR EXAMPLE, WHEN A PHRASE IS CANCELED OUT WITH A PHRASE BY IT, THAT MAKES THE MEANING, SIMPLY CANCELED. ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS THE "LONERS AT THE CLUB, WHICH MEANS THA TTHEY WERENT REALLY LONERS, BECUASE A CLUB IS ALWAYS FILLED WITH PEOLE IS IT NOT?

Answer 6

Here's a list
http://www.oxymorons.info/
~hope

Answer 7

it's like living dead
or jumbo shrimp
it's a way of callung things that contradicts itself

Answer 8

Try www.oxymoronlist.com for more.