Oxymoron: a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.

Oxymoron from Everyday Life

Whether you know it or not, you have probably used, or at least heard, some oxymorons in your every day life.

• Great Depression
• Jumbo shrimp
• Cruel to be kind
• Pain for pleasure
• Clearly confused
• Act naturally
• Beautifully painful
• Painfully beautiful
• Deafening silence
• Pretty ugly
• Pretty fierce
• Pretty cruel
• Definitely maybe
• Living dead
• Walking dead
• Only choice
• Amazingly awful
• Alone together
• Virtual reality
• Random order
• Original copy
• Happy sad
• Disgustingly delicious
• Run slowly
• Awfully good
• Awfully delicious
• Small crowd
• Dark light
• Light darkness
• Dark snow
• Open secret
• Passive aggressive
• Appear invisible
• Awfully lucky
• Awfully pretty
• Big baby
• Tiny elephant
• Wake up dead
• Goodbye reception
• Growing smaller
• Least favorite
• True myth
• Typically weird
• Typically odd
• Naturally strange
• Weirdly normal
• Unpopular celebrity
• Worthless gold
• Sad joy
• Liquid food
• Heavy diet
• Noticeable absence
• Quiet presence
• Short wait
• Sweet agony