Oxymorons

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100 Examples of Oxymorons

Like other kinds of figurative language, oxymorons (or oxymora) are often found in literature. As shown by this list of 100 awfully good examples, oxymorons are also part of our everyday speech. You'll find common figures of speech, plus references to works of classic and pop culture.

absent presence
(from "Astrophil and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney)
alone together
awful good
beggarly riches
(from "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" by John Donne)
bittersweet
"brisk vacancy"
(from "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashbery)
cheerful pessimist
civil war
clearly misunderstood
comfortable misery
(from "One Door Away From Heaven" by Dean Koontz)
conspicuous absence
cool passion
crash landing
cruel kindness
darkness visible
(from "Paradise Lost" by John Milton)
deafening silence
deceptively honest
definite maybe
deliberate speed
devout atheist
dull roar
eloquent silence
even odds
exact estimate
extinct life
falsely true
(from "Lancelot and Elaine" by Lord Tennyson)
festive tranquility
found missing
freezer burn
friendly takeover
genuine imitation
good grief
growing smaller
guest host
historical present
humane slaughter
icy hot
idiot savant
ill health
impossible solution
intense apathy
joyful sadness
jumbo shrimp
larger half
lascivious grace
(from Sonnet 40 by William Shakespeare)
lead balloon
liquid marble
(from "Poetaster" by Ben Jonson)

living dead
living end
living sacrifices
loosely sealed
loud whisper
loyal opposition
magic realism
melancholy merriment
(from "Don Juan" by Lord Byron)
militant pacifist
minor miracle
negative growth
negative income
old news
one-man band
only choice
openly deceptive
open secret
original copy
overbearingly modest
paper tablecloth
paper towel
peaceful conquest
plastic glasses
plastic silverware
poor health
pretty ugly
properly ridiculous
random order
recorded live
resident alien
sad smile
same difference
scalding coolness
(from "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway)
seriously funny
shrewd dumbness
silent scream
small crowd
soft rock
"The Sound of Silence"
(song by Paul Simon)
static flow
steel wool
student teacher
"sweet sorrow"
(from "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
terribly good
theoretical experience
transparent night
(from "When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d" by Walt Whitman)
true fiction
"True Lies"
(movie directed by James Cameron)
unbiased opinion
unconscious awareness
upward fall
wise fool
working vacation