Christine Sætre-esqueAdmission: Caught of guard by the connotation of “peruse”.
Not “skim” (my conviction)
Rather “carefully and at length” ‽
bokI know a lot of contronyms, like table (put up for discussion | remove from discussion) and cleave (split apart | adhere together). I didn't know that livid was one until I read a sentence in Beyond the Vanishing Point by Ray Cummings:
❝The blood drained suddenly from his face and lips, leaving them livid.❞
So the #contronym can mean both flushed (bruised or angry) or pallid. I'd only encountered the first meaning before. #usage #vocabulary #contranym
Scott StarkeyWith this terrible headline, I realized that "dropped" is #contranym. It means both to newly give access to something, or to newly take away access from something.
Dave Moskovitz (((❤️)))Now that's odd, the verb and the adjective senses of the word "individuate" are antonyms. #contranym
Alex Chaffeei mean technically yeah, workers are entitled to benefits in return for the fruits of their labors, but lately when people say “entitled” they mean “with a greedy and unjustified sense of entitlement” i.e. “not entitled”
it’s a shame, but also amusing, when a word becomes its own antonym