Oxymorous

Quick meaning: Oxymorous is an adjective meaning (rare) Synonym of oxymoronic.

Meaning

(rare) Synonym of oxymoronic.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

Synonyms for oxymorous

Depending on context, synonyms include oxymoronic.

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