antiphrasis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Use of a word or phrase in a sense opposite of its literal meaning, especially for ironic or humorous effect. countable,rhetoric,uncountable
    — When they called him “bad as hell”, they weren’t calling him evil. It was antiphrasis.

词形变化

antiphrases plural

词源

Borrowed from Late Latin antiphrasis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντίφρασις (antíphrasis) (< phrazein "declare").
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