About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- catachresis
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ROGET THESAURUS
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

catachresis

 : 
Noun
 : 
cat=a=chre=sis

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun catachresis has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

catachresisn. [L. fr. Gr. misuse, fr. to misuse; kata` against + to use.].
     A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, “To take arms against a sea of troubles”. Shak. “Her voice was but the shadow of a sound.” Young.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

catachresis, n. (pl. catachreses) an incorrect use of words.

Derivative
catachrestic adj.
Etymology
L f. Gk katakhresis f. khraomai use

ROGET THESAURUS

catachresis

Metaphor

N metaphor, figure of speech, facon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism, phrase, figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis, metonymy, synecdoche, autonomasia, irony, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable, allusion, adumbration, application, exaggeration, hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy), metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical, ironical, colloquial, tropical, so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.

Misinterpretation

N misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplication, catachresis, eisegesis, cross-reading, cross-purposes, mistake, misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration, false coloring, false construction, abuse of terms, parody, travesty, falsification, misinterpreted, untranslated, untranslatable.

copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion