It’s common to joke about words like underwhelmed/overwhelmed - can one be just whelmed? Or words like subpar that sound awkward if you try to form the opposite - superpar!? Some words even keep their meaning with opposing prefixes or none at all like inflammable!
Any other good/fun examples?
disgruntled
Gormless used to be matched by gormful. Gorm itself is a rather wonderful old English word that deserves a comeback.
Nocent is the missing logical opposite for innocent.
Moved Cafe Society --> IMHO.
It was only recently that I learned that you can fenestrate someone.
No, it doesn’t mean failing to throw them out of a window. It means cutting them open.
Would you believe that I read that original article in 1994, and have regretted not keeping it ever since.
Thank you, honeydew!
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