antiphrasis in English

noun

ironic use of a phrase or word to mean opposite of its literal sense

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1. It was a bold antiphrasis that gave such a vernal title to this birthplace of icebergs.

2. Antiphrasis - Benightment - brutishness - ill breeding - impropriety - malapropism - pompousness - poor diction - stiltedness - uncouthness 12 letter words cumbrousness - impoliteness - inconcinnity - lack of finish - lack of polish - philistinism - troglodytism - unrefinement - unseemliness - …

3. Antipestilently\v antipestilent\A antipetalous\A Antiphas\N Antiphates\N antiphilosophically\v antiphilosophical\A antiphilosophic\A antiphilosophies\p antiphilosophism\N antiphilosophy\AN antiphlogistic\AN antiphonally\v antiphonal\AN antiphonaries\p antiphonary\NA antiphonically\v antiphonic\A antiphonies\p antiphony\N antiphon\N antiphrasis