Oxymoron List

Here are some oxymorons/oxymora

- a breathless fan
- coldly fired
- dry drink
- (to)fool genius
- boundless line
- great depression
- happy life
- bloody clean
- quiet pupil (It depends on the teacher)
- light brown
- be dead
- (an)inordinate fair
- Act naturally
- Airline food
- Alone together
- Business ethics
- Butt head
- Clearly misunderstood
- Computer security
- Definite maybe
- Exact estimate
- Extinct life
- Found missing
- Genuine imitation
- Good grief
- Government organisation
- Jumbo Shrimps
- Legally drunk
- Military intelligence
- Now, then . . .
- Passive aggression
- Peace force
- Plastic glasses
- Political science
- Pretty ugly
- Quiet riot
- Rap music
- Religious tolerance
- Resident alien
- Sanitary landfill
- Small crowd
- Soft rock
- State worker
- Sweet sorrow
- Terribly pleased
- Tight slacks
- Working vacation
- Bitter sweet
- Boundless line
- Bloody clean
- Living dead
- A just war
- Mobile station
- Business ethics
- Free trade
- Wireless cable
- Pretty bad
- Empty calories
- Reasonable force
- Friendly fire
- Jumpo shrimp
- Home school
- Smart bomb
- Real dream
- Fun run
- Cowardly lion
- Fresh cheese
- Burning ice
- Luxury bus
- Sweet tart
- Free trade
- Peacekeeper missile
- Crash landing
- Butt head
- Sweet sorrow
- Student teacher
- Silent scream
- Taped live
- Alone together
- Good grief
- Tight slacks
- Living dead
- Near miss
- Light tanks
- Old news
- Hot chilli
- Peace force
- Criminal justice
- Open secret
- Larger half
- Clearly confused
- Act naturally
- Liquid gas
- Found missing
- Civil engineer
- Deafening silence
- Seriously funny
- Military intelligence
- Microsoft Works
- Jumbo shrimp
- Tragic comedy
- Virtual reality
- Unbiased opinion
- Original copies
- Definite maybe
- Plastic glasses
- Same difference
- Almost exactly
- Even odds
- Constant variable
- Extinct life
- Minor crisis
- Genuine imitation
- Exact estimate
- Freezer burn
- Only choice
- Free love
- Working holiday
- Rolling stop

William Shakespeare loved to play with words. In A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus speaks these oxymoronic words (Act V, Scene I):

"A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
And his love Thisby; very tragical mirth.'
Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!
That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow."

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Act III are several: damned saint, honorable villain, loyal deceit.

WHAT DOES "OXYMORON" MEAN? Two words in a phrase that are opposites