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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 5, 2019 10:56:24 GMT
Talk about resurrecting the dead.
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Post by tangent on Aug 5, 2019 13:04:02 GMT
There have been 0 votes by 0 voters.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 5, 2019 14:01:17 GMT
Which speaks strongly for 'none of the above'.
I'd say that was unambiguous.
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Post by ceptimus on Aug 5, 2019 18:48:03 GMT
The correct answer is "not obvious" English doesn't require every word to have an antonym - that's what the modifier, 'not' is for.
Some words even have a prefix like 'in' or 'un', but they still don't have simple antonyms: the opposite of infernal is not fernal, and the opposite of untoward is not toward.
Famously, flammable and inflammable both mean exactly the same.
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Post by Kye on Aug 5, 2019 19:55:35 GMT
And the opposite of both of them is nonflammable!
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Post by tangent on Aug 5, 2019 20:05:03 GMT
Merriam-Webster has a definition for unobvious.
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Post by ceptimus on Aug 5, 2019 22:37:04 GMT
Merriam-Webster has a definition for kempt - the opposite of unkempt. I never heard anyone use that either.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 5, 2019 23:34:27 GMT
How about 'combobulated'? Is that there?
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Post by tangent on Aug 6, 2019 1:17:24 GMT
Merriam-Webster has a definition for kempt - the opposite of unkempt. I never heard anyone use that either. Not being used doesn't stop unobvious being the opposite of obvious.
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Post by ceptimus on Aug 6, 2019 5:39:49 GMT
Dictionaries only report how a language is really being used: they're not prescriptive rulebooks on how a language should be used. Maybe, in the part of the world where the Merriam-Webster dictionary compilers live, people really do write or utter words like kempt and unobvious.
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Post by Moose on Aug 7, 2019 22:57:56 GMT
Necromancy
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Post by Alvamiga on Aug 11, 2019 20:07:57 GMT
Talk about resurrecting the dead. This thread got necro-bumped by an Rx-Bot!
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