Oxymoron Examples

Oxymoron Examples

Oxymoron (from Greek oxys = sharp; moron, neuter of monos = foolish): figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined .

• Summer cold
• secret open
• larger half  
• clearly confused
• act naturally
• alone together
• Hell's Angels
• found missing
• liquid gas
• civil engineer
• deafening silence
• seriously funny
• living dead
• Microsoft Works
• military intelligence
• jumbo shrimp
• Advanced BASIC
• tragic comedy
• unbiased opinion
• virtual reality
• definite maybe
• original copies
• pretty ugly
• same difference
• plastic glasses
• almost exactly
• constant variable
• even odds
• minor crisis
• extinct life
• genuine imitation
• exact estimate
• only choice
• freezer burn
• free love
• working holiday
• rolling stop
• Great Depression
• free trade
• peacekeeper missile
• sweet tart
• crash landing
• now then
• sweet sorrow
• student teacher
• silent scream
• taped live
• alone together
• good grief
• tight slacks
• living dead
• near miss
• light tanks
• old news
• hot chili
• criminal justice
• peace force