catachresis
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
Types & categories
- rhetorical device hypernym
Related & opposite
- catachrestic derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | catachrestic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | rhetorical device |