30 Aug 2014

Top 60 oxymorons

An oxymoron is a figure of speech combining terms that are usually contradictory of one another. Some examples are....

oxymorons:

  1. clearly misunderstood
  2. Confirmed rumor
  3. Bad luck
  4. Born dead
  5. All alone
  6. Accurate estimate
  7. Constant change
  8. Found missing
  9. Plastic glass
  10. Modern history
  11. alone together
  12. seriously funny
  13. run slowly
  14. big baby
  15. Detailed summary
  16. Soft rock
  17. Liquid gas
  18. Known secret
  19. Fully empty
  20. cheerful pessimist
  21. genuine imitation
  22. impossible solution
  23. theoretical experience
  24. wise fool
  25. upward fall
  26. open secret 
  27. larger half 
  28. clearly confused
  29. act naturally 
  30. alone together 
  31. Hell's Angels
  32. found missing 
  33. liquid gas 
  34. civil engineer
  35. deafening silence
  36. seriously funny
  37. living dead
  38. virtual reality
  39. original copies
  40. pretty ugly
  41. same difference
  42. plastic glasses
  43. almost exactly
  44. constant variable
  45. even odds
  46. minor crisis
  47. extinct life
  48. genuine imitation
  49. exact estimate 
  50. only choice
  51. freezer burn
  52. free love 
  53. working holiday 
  54. Great Depression 
  55. silent scream 
  56. old news
  57. criminal justice
  58. Dark light
  59. Controlled chaos 
  60. Icy hot
Last but not the least...... A True story... :)

And the one which i feel the best is... " Hungry Farmer"



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