WordNet: catachresis
strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
- hypernym rhetorical device
catachresis
- (englanti) catachrestical (derivationally related)
- (englanti) catachrestic (derivationally related)
- (suomi) katakreesi (synonyymi)