Awfully Good Oxymorons: 10 Common Oxymorons to Help you Understand and Speak English Easier!

I ate my jumbo shrimp and then joined a small crowd to watch a virtual reality demonstration presented by a seriously funny comedian. In that sentence there are four examples of oxymorons: Jumbo shrimp, Small crowd, Virtual reality, and Seriously funny. Those are examples of oxymorons.

Oxymorons are when you take two contradicting words and you put them together to create a new meaning in English. It is taking two words that have opposite meanings and putting them together to create a unique meaning or a unique concept. Adding the useful oxymorons from this lesson to your vocabulary will help you to sound more like a native English speaker and create more interesting sentences!

Today’s English lesson will introduce you to 4 oxymorons that you can often hear, as well as teach 10 oxymorons from daily conversation that hopefully will help you to understand and speak English easier!

In this lesson the 4 oxymorons from the introduction include the expressions:
1. Jumbo shrimp
2. Small crowd
3. Virtual reality
4. Seriously funny

The 10 common oxymorons in daily conversation included in this lesson are:
1. Pretty ugly
2. Awfully good / Terribly good
3. Clearly confused
4. Definite possibility / Definitely maybe
5. Only choice
6. Open secret
7. Old news
8. Deafening silence
9. Organized chaos
10. Unbiased opinion


By the end of today’s English lesson you will have learned over 14 different oxymorons, more than 14 useful expressions to help you understand English easier and sound more like a native English speaker. Thank you for watching, “Awfully Good Oxymorons: 10 Common Oxymorons to Help you Understand and Speak English Easier!” I hope these expressions will be useful for you as you improve your English communication skills. Good luck with your English studies!

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