Nearby Words
catachresis
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery, especially in speech |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarity, brutality, catachresis, coarseness, corruption, cruelty, impropriety, inhumanity, localism, malapropism, misusage, misuse, primitive culture, provincialism, solecism, uncivilizedness, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism |
| Antonyms: | kindness, praise |
| Concept: | Misuse. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
misuse, misusage, misemployment, misapplication, misappropriation., abuse, profanation, prostitution, desecration; waste.
-verbs
-adjectives
misused.
-phrases
ludere cum sacris.
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| Antonyms: | use |
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