contradictory
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˌkɒntrəˈdɪktəri/
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contradictorio
- Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.
- contradictory statements
- contradictory information
- contradictory messages
Instead, they integrate these contradictory parts of themselves.
- Instead, they integrate these contradictory parts of themselves.
- And he says that theism is going to be contradictory in itself.
- So how do we not give contradictory advice?
- I never saw writing and acting as contradictory disciplines or or endeavours.
- The advice the two of you just gave me is so deeply contradictory to those two statements.
- That doesn't seem contradictory to me.
- Now, if you're like me, when you hear those two propositions, they sound wildly contradictory.
- There's two ideas in the book that I think most people would consider contradictory, but I think are so important.
- And even Hamas, if you listen to them closely, they gave very, they gave contradictory accounts of what happened.
- But, you know, so, so there's this way in which the phenomenon, it manifests in in contradictory ways.
- And yeah, it's, it's, you know, how can studies show such contradictory positions and, and how can such contradictory positions exist?
- But I think he's a very contradictory man.
Examples
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But people are often quite content to hold contradictory views and act in contradictory fashion.
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The larger problem, however, is the contradictory data throughout the Arts Report Card.
Academic text (1999) -
It's hard to get more contradictory than that.
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So how do we not give contradictory advice?
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This may sound contradictory, but sometimes the best path to serving God is to step out of the way.
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The advice the two of you just gave me is so deeply contradictory to those two statements.
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State agents with a variety of interests produce different and sometimes contradictory visions of the nation.
Academic text (1999) -
I believe in the future resolution of the two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly contradictory.
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Accounts of what took place that day are contradictory, particularly as to which race was the aggressor.
Academic text (2011) -
The two witnesses provided contradictory accounts of the incident, making it hard to determine what really happened.
Synonyms
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1.0
Completely different in nature or direction
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4.7
Not staying the same over time and not agreeing with other facts
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4.8
Not agreeing with someone or something
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6.4
Not able to happen or be true at the same time
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8.4
Directly opposed in beliefs or purpose
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7.4
Not fitting together and often clashing in sound or opinion
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4.2
Having ideas, facts, or feelings that do not agree with each other
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7.0
An idea that does not agree with another idea
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6.8
Opposite words where one is true and the other is not
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9.3
Divided into two different parts or groups
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7.9
Not matching what it should be in shape or meaning
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7.1
Colors, opinions, or sounds that do not match and seem to clash
Directly opposite in idea or purpose
Showing that facts or statements do not match
Impossible to make two people or ideas agree
Involving a conflict between two ideas or rules
Not in agreement with something else
Often disagreeing with others on purpose to be difficult
How Contradictory
Surface Forms
Morphology
contradictory = contradict (transparent) = contradict + ory
The adjective is a standard derivation from the verb 'contradict' with the adjectival suffix '-ory', so the meaning is directly predictable from 'contradict'.
Etymology
Contradictory comes from the Latin parts contra- 'against' and dicere 'to say', so it originally meant 'saying against'. So, something contradictory has ideas or statements that oppose each other and cannot both be true at the same time.