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11 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)
originBorrowed from Late Latin antiphrasis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντίφρασις (antíphrasis) (< phrazein "declare").
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
Words from these letters
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- tranships 14
- transship 14
- airships 13
- antiship 13
- hairpins 13
- harpists 13
- piranhas 13
- starship 13
- tranship 13
- airship 12
- ashpans 12