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Heterological meaning in English
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Heterological
see synonyms of heterologicalAdjective
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Heterological
see synonyms of heterologicaladj.
Being a word that does not possess the characteristic it describes. The word trisyllabic is heterological, since it expresses the property of having three syllables, while the word itself has four.
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