Game: Antonyms

Post by **Kvetch** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:13 pm

I've come up with another, rather more cerebral, game:

along the lines of the MQG, the idea is to post a (serious) word, and the challenge is to find it's antonym (opposite).

Normally this wouldn't be to hard, so try going for the obscurer words ( posting hot/cold will hardly help make this thread very interesting). In the process some interesting points of semantics may come up.

my word: Oxymoron.

NB: don't post a definition, that's part of the fun: the way we understand the meaning of words should be enlightening (for instance, my use of the word 'prevaricate' (as a synonym for procrastinate), is at odds with it's dictionary definition.)

I'm sad arn't I?

Echus Cthulhu Mythos · Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:20 pm

Your very sad.

I'd say consensus. Do I have to explain why I chose it?

My word: Abnegator.

p.s. That is a good game idea.

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:17 pm

I'd have to go with a true believer

My word =Plagiocephaly

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:11 am

/can't think up a one word answer, so I'll go with a phrase:

golfball head(that's the furthest away from a malformed skull i can get)

interestingly, my antonym for oxymoron was tautology: rather than two contradictory images juxtaposed, two identical images juxtaposed

since my antonym sucks, I elect to leave 'Plagiocephaly' open

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:15 am

/can't think up a one word answer, so I'll go with a phrase:

leiocephaly(that's the furthest away from a malformed skull I can get - it OUGHT to mean smooth skull in latin. don't know if it does)

interestingly, my antonym for oxymoron was tautology: rather than two contradictory images juxtaposed, two identical images juxtaposed

juxtaposed (have no idea if there is a single word that is the antonym of this)

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:48 am

bifurcated

if Juxtaposed is next to each other, then bifurcated is separated from each other, eh?

hebetude

Post by **Kvetch** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:17 am

perspicacity

dictionary.com wrote:Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding

dictionary.com wrote:intelligence manifested by being astute

My word: emoticon (smiley: :D :( :? )

(btw, I can't think of an antonym for the word)

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:04 pm

blank, emotionless sheet.

(If the emoticon presents emotional quality, nothingness would be the opposite, yes?)

progeniture

Post by **Kvetch** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:02 am

progeniture: a begetting or birth.

assasination: a killing, destruction (of character etc.)

My word: Book

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:18 pm

Book: a concrete object stuffed with meaning.

My antonym: void: meaningless, empty space.

My new word potentate

Post by **laurie** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:19 am

Potentate: an all-powerful person

My antonym: Nonentity: a nobody

New word: anthropomorphic

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:37 am

anthropomorphic=human; manlike

antonym=inhuman

New word: quintessence

Post by **Kvetch** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:32 pm

earth air fire water, since quitessence was the fifth element, in opposition to the rest (I think, my alchemy not being that good)

anomaly

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:34 pm

normality---since anomaly is a strangeness, the opposite must be a normalness

peripheral

Post by **Kvetch** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:43 pm

internal (if peripheral is at the edges, internal must be at the centre)

bibliophilia (and blasphemy is NOT allowed)

Post by **Darb** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:43 pm

Antonym = Central

New word = Ombudsman

Post by **Kvetch** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:57 pm

double post. I yield priority to brad.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:22 pm

omg my head hurts. I'm going back to the stupid people threads.

Post by **Darb** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:48 pm

Kvetch wrote:double post. I yield priority to brad.

Bibliophobia ... the latin 'philia' suffix made the answer trivial

Back to ombudsman

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:04 pm

ombudsman=guy who hears complaints and makes things right.

Antonym= misanthrope---> doesn't care about people and therefore would not listen to or care about their complaints or making them right.

New word= arcadian

Post by **Kvetch** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:25 am

bibliphilia: oops

arcadian - antonym: urban.

(best I can manage, sorry)

Chiral

Post by **Kvetch** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:18 pm

^bump^: anyone want to have a stab?

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:31 pm

Selfrighteous

Sue

Post by **Kvetch** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:34 pm

don't see it myself, I must admit.

However, your turn to post a word.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:12 pm

Isn't "chiral" a chemistry term? if I stretch back to high school chem, I think it's a molecule that can't be super-imposed on itself backwards or mirrored or something like that... I could be *way* off base...