Hi. I'm wondering if anyone out there knows what the longest single word oxymoron in the English language is?
Thanks
Spencer

single word oxymoron
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maybe I just ain't awake yet, but, I can't think of any...

"postmodernism" is 13 letters long.

Well, welcome c1ockwatcher. I don't have any oxymorons to submit yet, at least not any single-word ones.

MicrosoftWorks?

or is that two words? sumnthem be sumnthem baint

welcome clockwatcher, Lederer has this to say
http://wordways.com/oxymoron.htm

Thanks for all the replies :)

Hi, c1ockwatcher. I can't think of any examples; did you have any words in mind when you brought this up?

Hi C1 - can't offer you anything but a word of advice for when you find your hardworking ox:

When I make a word do a lot of work like that, I always pay it extra.

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Through the Looking Glass

I guess I'm having trouble thinking of single-word oxymorons. aren't most of them at least two words?

don't any of you that can't think of examples care enough to take the Lederer link??

There is a name of a U.S. state that is akin to an oxymoron, being two antonyms separated by a single vowel.

sorry. I am a nook. or would that be I am nook?

U.S. state

Louisiana?

The ones I had when posting were bridegroom, ballpoint & bittersweet.

Connecticut

antidisestablishmentarianism?

Welcome, clockwatcher...and hop right on board our Merry Wordsters Bus!

don't any of you that can't think of examples care enough to take the Lederer link??

I, for one, was trying to come up with something on my own, good buddy.

I took the Lederer link but.

I am no wiser for an answer to the question - what did I miss?