Words that also mean their opposites — they have been called “contronyms,” as well as “antagonyms” and “Janus words” — are curious creatures, and while many languages have a few of them, few are ...

Contronym (noun), a word that can also mean the opposite of itself, a feature more common in English than in any Indian language. USAGE: When the media said President Trump had sanctioned Iranian oil ...

Peggy Parish’s Amelia Bedelia children’s picture book series, features an interesting character, a housekeeper with the same name of the book series, who takes her instructions literally and does ...

A recent headline declared that the United States had sanctioned Iranian oil supplies. Many readers weren't sure what the newspaper meant, since “sanction” is a contronym - a word that can also mean ...