Citations:miranym

English citations of miranym

• 2004, A. J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN), page 178:

  “Also, there's something called miranyms,” continues Douglas, unfazed “That's the word in between two opposites.” The adults around the table are confused. “Like when you have 'convex' and 'concave', the miranym is 'flat,' ” says Douglas, patiently. Right now, I've got a mixed bag of emotions. On the one hand, I'm proud. Here we've got a bonafide prodigy, a fellow athlete of the mind, […] .

• 2007, Barbara Ann Kipfer, Word Nerd: More Than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words, Sourcebooks Incorporated:

  […] originally, minstrel, like its relative "minister," meant "servant," going back to Latin ministerialis, "official"

  a miranym is a word between two opposites: concave/flat/convex