An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms. Oxymorons can be divided into expressions that were deliberately crafted to be contradictory and those phrases that inadvertently or incidentally contain a contradiction. Examples of oxymorons are: dark light, original copy, bitter sweet, serious joke etc.
The word oxymoron is itself contradictory. The term “oxymoron" is derived from the Greek words oxy, meaning "sharp" and moron meaning “dull”.
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