What is another word for "misnomer"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "misnomer": abuse, accent, alias, ambiguity, anagram, anonymous, antiphrasis, archaic, archaism, argot, assume, assumed, babu, barbarism, black, brogue, broken, by-name, byword, call, cant, clinch, coin, coiner, colloquial, colloquialism, confusion, corruption, course, dialect, dog, double, expression, figure, flash, gibberish, having, his, idiom, informal.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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