amphiboly
41malapropism — Synonyms and related words: Irish bull, abuse of terms, acrostic, alliteration, allusion, amphibologism, amphiboly, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, anagram, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis, aporia,… …
42palindrome — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, anastrophe, calembour, chiasmus, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, hypallage, hyperbaton, hysteron proteron, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism …
43play on words — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, be merry with, calembour, corruption, crack a joke, crack wise, equivocality, equivoque, fleer at, fun, gibe at, jape, jest, jeu de mots, joke, josh, kid,… …
44pun — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acrostic, alliterate, alliteration, ambiguity, amphibologism, amphibology, amphiboly, anagram, assonance, assonate, be merry with, calembour, chime, clink, corruption, counterword, crack a joke, crack… …
45spoonerism — Synonyms and related words: Irish bull, abuse of terms, acronym, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anacoluthon, anagram, avyayibhava, back formation, bull, calembour, catachresis, clipped word, compound, conjugate, construction, corruption,… …
46wordplay — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, calembour, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, play on words,… …
47ambiguity — n. 1. Doubtfulness, dubiousness, doubt, uncertainty or equivocalness (as respects the meaning of a term), indefiniteness, vagueness, obscurity, amphiboly. 2. Ambiguous, expression, double meaning, equivoke (or equivoque), double entendre …
48evasion — n 1. avoidance, dodge, dodging,.elusion, slip; shake, go by, bypass, escape; flight, retreat; shunning, shirking, Sl. goldbricking, malingering; ignoring, neglect, omission. 2. prevarication, quibble, quibbling, equivocation; roundabout,… …
49amphibology — /æmfəˈbɒlədʒi/ (say amfuh boluhjee) noun (plural amphibologies) ambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words. {Late Latin amphibologia; replacing Latin amphibolia (see… …
50amphibology — [am fib′ə lē] n. pl. amphibolies [am΄fə bäl′ə jē] n. amphibologies [ME amphibologie < LL amphibologia (altered after words ending in logia, LOGY) < L amphibolia < Gr, ambiguity < amphiballein: see AMPHIBOLE] 1. double or doubtful… …
