Words that mean the exact opposite of how they sound.
Extralegal: not legal
Inflammable: able to be set a flame.
Do you have any other suggestions?
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Don’t “inflammable” and “flammable” mean the same thing?
Yeah, but Inflammable sounds like it isn’t flammable
I was about to argue with you and toss out a bunch of ad hominems on you, but then I looked it up and by golly you’re right. I’m one of the 10,000 today it seems.
Not sure, but another example is “irregardless”
Probably because it was borrowed from French : enflammable.
Shelled and unshelled mean the same thing, same with pitted and unpitted