I programmed computers back in the day, and before the Morris worm in ‘88, we would consider a quick SW job, just thrown together, a “hack”, not well thought out, barely working, a prototype. Hack means to “break apart roughly”, we used it to “put together roughly”. Its meaning and connotations have changed since then too.
This is more than a word, but "it's all downhill from here" can mean it's all good, easy going until the end, or this is the point from which it all falls apart.
Then there are nice contronyms which work only in sound - raise and raze.
I programmed computers back in the day, and before the Morris worm in ‘88, we would consider a quick SW job, just thrown together, a “hack”, not well thought out, barely working, a prototype. Hack means to “break apart roughly”, we used it to “put together roughly”. Its meaning and connotations have changed since then too.
Or words that look like antonyms but aren't, like flammable and inflammable.
My coworker and I used to collect heteronyms, words that were spelled the same, but pronounced differently and meant different things.
This is more than a word, but "it's all downhill from here" can mean it's all good, easy going until the end, or this is the point from which it all falls apart.
Hope the collaboration goes well! Meanwhile, here are a couple of contronyms:
Clip: attach something to something else, or cut out of something (like a newspaper)
Garnish: to reduce, as in wages, or to add, as to garnish a dish of food
I now understand how the universe works!! “Cleave” has driven me to the dictionary more than once 😂!