catachresis
英 [,kætə'kriːsɪs]
美
- n. 用词不当；词形更改；修辞手法生硬而自相矛盾的误用
英英释义
- 1. strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
英文词源
- catachresis (n.)
- 1580s, from Latin catachresis, from Greek katakhresis "misuse" (of a word), from katakhresthai "to misuse," from kata- "down" (here with a sense of "perversion;" see cata-) + khresthai "to use" (see hortatory). Related: Catachrestic; catachrestical; catachrestically.