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What does oxymoronical mean?

"Oxymoronical" is not a real word.

It's likely a playful attempt to create an adjective from the word "oxymoron".

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms, often for ironic or humorous effect. For example:

* Deafening silence

* Living dead

* Pretty ugly

* Same difference

To describe something as "oxymoronical" would be an attempt to say it's full of contradictions or inherently paradoxical.

While it's not a formally recognized word, the meaning is clear enough in context.

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