Usually means: Contradictory terms appearing in conjunction.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word oxymoron:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. oxymoron: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. oxymoron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oxymoron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oxymoron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oxymoron: Vocabulary.com
  6. Oxymoron, oxymoron: Wordnik
  7. oxymoron: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. oxymoron: Wiktionary
  9. oxymoron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oxymoron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oxymoron: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. oxymoron: Dictionary.com
  13. oxymoron: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Oxymoron (album), Oxymoron (band), Oxymoron (disambiguation), Oxymoron, The Oxymoron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Oxymoron: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. oxymoron: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. oxymoron: Rhymezone
  18. Oxymoron: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. oxymoron: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. oxymoron: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. oxymoron: Free Dictionary
  22. oxymoron: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. oxymoron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. oxymoron: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. oxymoron: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. oxymoron: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Oxymoron: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  5. OXYMORON: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oxymoron: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. oxymoron: A Word A Day
  2. oxymoron: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See oxymora as well.)

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noun:  (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
noun:  (loosely, sometimes proscribed) A contradiction in terms.

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