You're simply ravishing dear.
How did the word "ravish, vt" turn into "ravishing, adj"? Is it correct to say "The man was ravishing the ravishing woman"? I suppose a woman could conceivably ravish a man, but if a woman who isn't...
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>The adjective has been around since Chaucer.Neat. Was it the woman's fault even back then?
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Very interesting. Isn't there a list, somewhere, of words that can mean the same thing as their opposites? They've got a cute name --"anti-nyms" or somesuch-- and I think this one might be a good...
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Any minute now Dr T. will chime in with not one, but THREE terms to describe such words. Tho I wouldn't put "ravishing" in the list -- a swap between subject and object does not an "opposite"...
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Not quite the same as a word meaning both it self and it's opposite but 'flammable' and 'inflammable' mean the same thing
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We've definitely covered these. Somewheres or others. And a link was posted to a site.
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Contranyms. But this is not an example; it's just reversal of subject and object.
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Methinks I've been double-mantled, but I'll let it pass, in order to expand on my first point: weren't there like 4 or 5 different synonyms for "contranym"? I thought the good Doc posted at least 3...
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