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False Antonyms...

We have:

Barkley Rosser: ...the estimable Mark Thoma...

Adam Posen: ...the inestimable Paul Krugman...

As near as I can see, Barkley's and Adam's adjectives mean exactly the same thing--in spite of the fact that they are, structurally, antonyms.

Are there other words whose meaning is identical to that of their structural antonyms? "Flammable" and "inflammable," yes, but others?

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