Citations:miranym


 * 2004, A. J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9780743250603), page 178:
 * “Also, there's something called miranyms,” continues Douglas, unfazed “That's the word in between two opposites.” The adults around the table are confused. “Like when you have &#39;convex&#39; and &#39;concave&#39;, the miranym is &#39;flat,&#39; ” says Douglas, patiently. Right now, I've got a mixed bag of emotions. On the one hand, I'm proud. Here we've got a bonafide prodigy, a fellow athlete of the mind,.
 * 2007, Barbara Ann Kipfer, Word Nerd: More Than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words, Sourcebooks Incorporated:
 * originally, minstrel, like its relative "minister," meant "servant," going back to Latin ministerialis, "official"
 * a miranym is a word between two opposites: concave/flat/convex