Ever heard of autoantonyms?

Philippines
April 24, 2011 11:18am CST
These are words that have different meanings that contradicts. They are also called Janus words, from the two-faced Greek myth figure. I only know a few, Is there anyone who can share some plus a sample sentence. It's just for fun, nothing serious. Some of these I know are: wind up, rent and overlook. Sample sentences: I wind up from scratches into a successful proprietor. I wind up here in the desert after my plane crash. He rented the cheapest warehouse. She rented him my car for a hundred bucks an hour. I think I overlooked your name, let me check again. Don't cheat, the teacher overlooks you from behind. Sorry for the weird sentences, it's kind of hard making one up out of nowhere.
1 response
• India
24 Apr 11
I never heard about it before this. Thanks for informing
• Philippines
24 Apr 11
No problem ^_^ It's nice to share out random knowledges once in a while. It's good for the brains too, even though the information is substantially not useful at all, lol.