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contradictory

noun

1 contradictory

Two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time.

Polish: sprzeczność

adjective

1 contradictory

Of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false.

Roget 468: countervailing etc. v.; contradictory.    unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence; supposititious.   

Roget 536: denying etc. v.; denied etc. v.; contradictory; negative, negatory; recusant etc. (dissenting) 489; ... show more

2 contradictory

That confounds or contradicts or confuses.

synonym: confounding.

3 contradictory

In disagreement:
— Contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness.

synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory.

Roget 14: contrary, contrarious, contrariant; opposite, counter, dead against; converse, reverse; opposed, antithetical, contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing; ... show more

Polish: przeciwbieżny, przeciwstawny, antonimiczny, kontradyktoryjny, antynomiczny, sprzeczny, dysharmonijny, opozycyjny

4 contradictory

Unable for both to exist or be true at the same time.

synonym: mutually exclusive.


Moby thesaurus: abjuratory, abnegative, absonant, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, alien, ambiguous, ambivalent, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antipodal, antipode, antipodean, antipole, antithesis, antithetic, antithetical ... show more.

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