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31far-fetched — a. Recondite, abstruse, forced, strained, catachrestic, studiously sought …
32forced — a. 1. Compelled, constrained, enforced. 2. Strained, unnatural, catachrestic, farfetched, studiously sought …
33catachrestical — a. See catachrestic …
34forced — adj 1. enforced, required, obligatory, compulsory, involuntary; committed, obliged, constrained, compelled. 2. strained, unnatural, artificial, false, feigned, Sl. phony; overdone, stagey, far fetched, catachrestic; affected, stilted, Inf. put… …
35strained — adj forced, unnatural, artificial, plastic, false, Sl. phony, insincere; overdone, stagy, theatrical, far fetched, catachrestic; affected, stilted, Inf. put on, feigned, pretended; studied, labored, laborious, calculated, mannered; self conscious …
36catachresis — /kætəˈkrisəs/ (say katuh kreesuhs) noun (plural catachreses /kætəˈkrisiz/ (say katuh kreeseez)) 1. misuse or strained use of words. 2. the employment of a word under a false form through misapprehension in regard to its origin: causeway and… …
37enjoy — continues to be used with reference to things that are the complete opposite of enjoyable (such as ill health or a poor reputation), despite its identification as a ‘catachrestic’ (incorrect) use in the OED: • Despite the jokey reputation that… …
38illiterate — [adj] unable to read well; lacking education benighted, catachrestic, ignorant, inerudite, solecistic, uneducated, unenlightened, ungrammatical, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored; concept 402 Ant. able,… …
39catachresis — n. use of wrong words. ♦ catachrestic, a …
40catachresis — [kat΄ə krē′sis] n. pl. catachreses [kat΄ə krē′sēz΄] [L < Gr katachrēsis, misuse of a word < katachrēsthai < kata , against + chrēsthai, to use < chrē, it is necessary < ? IE * ĝhrē , var. of base * ĝher , small, be lacking]… …
