catachresis
noun/ˌkæt.əˈkɹiː.sɪs/UK
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin catachrēsis, borrowed from Ancient Greek κατάχρησις (katákhrēsis, “misuse (of a word)”).
- learned borrowing from catachrēsis
Definitions
A misuse of a word
A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description
A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.
- A Catachresis terms abused receives, And epithets and attributes improper gives.
The neighborhood
- synonymmalapropismmisuse of a word, with similar sounds
- neighborcatachresized
- neighborcatachrestic
- neighborcatachrestical
- neighborcatachrestically
- neighboreggcorn
- neighbormisnomer
- neighborphantonym
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for catachresis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA