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adjectiveunable for both to exist or be true at the same time
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"contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"adjectivein disagreement
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adjectivethat confounds or contradicts or confuses
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"`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms"adjectiveof words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false
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nountwo propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same timetype of:
Definition that contains contradictory
- paradoxical seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
- oxymoron conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
- contradictorily in a contradictory manner
- double-edged capable of being interpreted in two usually contradictory ways
- double bind (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma; situation in which a person receives contradictory messages from a person who is very powerful
- doublethink believing two contradictory ideas at the same time
- self-consistent not self-contradictory
- newspeak deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public
- self-contradictory seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true