TIL an antigram is an anagram that means its opposite.

Example: a volunteer fireman = I never run to a flame

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My brain lacks the RAM to process anagrams, let alone these strange new antigrams

match@pawb.social · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Jeremy's ... iron

Well, that's very good for a first try. You know, I have a ball. Perhaps you'd like to bounce it.

Deficient

This is a genuine actual TIL

kambusha@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Gonna need some more examples

Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 1y

Funeral = real fun Honestly = on the sly

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Can't spell funeral without real fun

OFF: The alarm went off and woke me up.

OFF: I turned the alarm off to get some more sleep.

plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org · 14 pts · 1y (5 replies)

So like "mother in law" and "woman Hitler"?

Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Some may argue these aren't opposites.

rockerface@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Holy boomer humor

TIL that the truth is boomer humor.

That's a synogram, depending on who you're asking.

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_____@lemm.ee · -4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

But ... firemen don't run into flames ?

Of all the classes of people, firemen have really gotta be up there on the list of those who run into flames.

_____@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

maybe I'm too ND but it upsets me that the antigram is not literal