| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Pertaining to antiphrasis.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb antiphrastically.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ANTIPHRASTICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ANTIPHRASTICAL
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Pertaining to antiphrasis.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adjective] Antiphrastic 1977, w:Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author", in Image, Music, Text, (London: Fontana, 1977), page 148) We are now beginning to let ourselves be fooled no longer by the arrogant antiphrastical recriminations of good society in favour of the very thing it sets aside, ignores, smothers, or destroys; we know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
