What does this word mean? 'Oxymoron'?

Answer 1

A google search on "oxymoron" returns:

# A paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adjective-noun ("eloquent silence") or adverb-adjective ("inertly strong") relationship, and is used for effect, to emphasize contrasts, incongruities, hypocrisy, or simply the complex nature of reality. Examples: wise fool, ignorantly learned, laughing sadness, pious hate. Some others:
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# a combination of contradictory terms, also considered a paradox. It is usually reduced to two words that have an adverb-adjective or an adjective-noun relationship. Example: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. "Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O heavy lightness, serious vanity; Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!" (1.1). ...
www.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/terms.htm

# A descriptive phrase that includes two terms that seem incongruent. For instance, freezing heat or bitter sweet. See also Trope.
sun-design.com/poetry/

# Meaning established by the association of incongruous or contradictory words. Ex: "Military Intelligence" "Silent scream" "Cafeteria food"
faculty.valencia.cc.fl.us/drogers/poetry/ptrygl.html

# oxímoron (joining together contradictory or incongruous terms in one expression -- "senectud lozana, decrépito verdor");
www.dur.ac.uk/m.p.thompson/rhetoric.htm

# A figure of speech containing an apparent contradiction. "Jumbo shrimp" is an often-cited example.
www.catch-word.com/glossary.html

# a figure of speech which yokes two contradictory terms
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# The association of two terms that seem to contradict each other, as in the expression “wise fool” or “jumbo shrimp.”
www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/newsat/chapter12section2.rhtml

# a contradiction in terms, sometimes an error and sometime a figure of speech. Some fun is had by finding accidental oxymorons or by alleging that certain terms, such as "military intelligence," are oxymorons. But some oxymorons such as "deafening silence" are intended figures of speech: "The searing cold of the frozen pipe seized my tongue." "Searing" is an effect of great heat, not of cold. ...
www.io.com/~eighner/books/lavender_blue/glossary.html

# "An oxymoron is a type of paradox that combines two terms ordinarily seen as opposites, such as Milton's description of God in Paradise Lost as 'Dark with excessive bright.' Simply put, oxymoron is the combination of words which, at first view, seem to be contradictory or incongruous, but whose surprising juxtaposition expresses a truth or dramatic effect, such as, cool fire, deafening silence, or wise folly" (University of Victoria Writer's Guide).
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# Use of an epithet of contrary significance, as in 'in faith unfaithful'.
www.geocities.com/Axiom43/literary.html

# involves a combination of two contradictory or conflicting words. It is different from a paradox in that it creates its effect much more compactly, using a combination of two successive words while a paradox involves a complete statement.
pc.pickeringcollege.on.ca/faculty/ijohnston/some_poetic_terms.htm

# A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (eg That shirt is pretty ugly.)
www.armour.k12.sd.us/Mary's%20Classes/literary_terms_glossary.htm

# Two normally contradictory terms combined paradoxically, as 'a living death'.
www.benybont.co.uk/triolet/terms-m.htm

# putting two contradictory words together
www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/poetry-terms.htm

# a contradiction in terms, placed very close to each other, like 'grimly gay' in Wilfred Owen's The Send- Off (p.104). See antithesis, contrast.
www.aberconwy.conwy.sch.uk/curriculum/english/y11/module_7/glossary.htm

# an expression uniting two contradictory terms to give it point ("O heavy lightness ... Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health")
mitglied.lycos.de/FrankGemkow/lyrik/lyrik3.htm

# two words with different meanings put together to emphasis the intended effect, eg blinding light, deafening silence, living death.
www.poetrypark.com/glossary.htm

# conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

# An oxymoron (plural "oxymora") (noun) is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms (e.g. "deafening silence"). Oxymoron is a Greek term derived from oxy ("sharp") and moros ("dull"). Oxymora are a proper subset of the expressions called contradiction in terms. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron

# Oxymoron is a street punk/Oi! band that was called into being in late 1992 actually, although the roots of the band go back further to the fall of 1989.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron_(band)

Answer 2

Oxymoron Wikipedia

Answer 3

Oxymoron is a figure of speech with opposite words in it. These words contrast between each other to make it sound more interesting and shorter to read.

Answer 4

An oxymoron is a phrase that presents an impossible situation by giving conditions to absolutes. Some are, "partially surrounded, somewhat dead, a little bit pregnant, pretty ugly, etc."

Answer 5

when 2 things of opposite meaning are put together usually with humerous effect. The best oxymoronic poem "One bright day, in the middle of the night"

One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight,
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other,
A deaf policeman heard the noise....

(it goes on, but this is what I remember for school days)

Each line is an oxymoron.

Answer 6

Shorter answer...it's two words used together that technically contradict one another. "Jumbo shrimp" is one of the most often cited examples. Terms such as "honest lawyer" or "government intelligence" can be called oxymorons if someone is seeking to use the word to insult someone or something.

Answer 7

A statement that contains its own contradiction (apparent or real) is an oxymoron.

Make haste slowly.
Concisely elaborate.
Quick deliberation.

Answer 8

Best oxymoron ever - Microsoft Works

Answer 9

It is when you put two words together that are opposites, for example: jumbo shirmp is and oxymoron because jumbo means big and shrimp is another word for small.

Answer 10

When two words with evidently opposite meanings are used together for instance "bittersweet"

Answer 11

It is when two contadictory terms are combined together. "Deafening Silence" , "Poor Little Rich Girl, and "Jumbo shrimp" are examples