oxymoronically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an oxymoronic manner.
adv
With regard to, or using oxymorons.
Example Sentences
- "Rushdie oxymoronically notes that Hobson-Jobson ‘can be wonderfully imprecise at times’ (1985: 82)."
Etymology
Etymology tree English oxymoronic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English oxymoronically From oxymoronic + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more oxymoronically (comparative)
most oxymoronically (superlative)