Meaning

(rare) Synonym of oxymoronic..

Example Sentences

The great Teacher was well aware of this in his choice of parables (Matt. 13; Luk. 11: 1—13 et al.), gnomes (Matt. 5), oxymorous statements (Matt. 5: 29, 30), every day incidents and events (Luk. 10, 25—37), common figures (Joh. 16: 20, 21), an easy , unscholastic style of speaking, rapid change of manner according to the changes in his thought and the requirements of the occasion. […] In this concrete sense we hold that the forms of truth have vital relation to application, as witness Christ’s use of parables, figures, gnomes, oxymorous address and the like.

I met a graceful English maid / Upon the Shwe Dagon / Her age was twenty-one, she said, / Her hair was sort of roan, / She had a soulful tearful air, / (It may have been a ruse,) / And on her feet she wore a pair / Of oxymorous shoes / […]

The terms are oxymorous, of course, and an oxymoron may be regarded as a condensed paradox; but it is just the paradoxical situation of man with which the poet is concerned.

[…] usual biological allusions, like "lungs." "Golden tears" is oxymorous. Death is so much a part and parcel of life that every moment on earth is just a moment of waiting for death.

Philosophy can achieve its ultimate goal only by becoming “popularized” or, in Cieszkowski’s oxymorous expression, “Sie muss sich in die Tiefe verflachen.”

One-year and two-year secretarial courses were offered, including an oxymorous liberal arts-secretarial "church secretarial certificate" for those who wished to combine somewhat contradictory disciplines.

Agreement even seemed to cheer him up, and from there our discussion began to take on a more relaxed and customary shape and to gravitate towards our usual oxymorous small-talk on large topics.

The oxymorous yoking together of the words “selfish” and “generosity” is a highly artistic way of expressing the tension of discernible action and inner motive.

Synonyms for oxymorous

When Should You Use Oxymorous?

Use oxymorous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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