noncontradictory
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˌkɒntrəˈdɪktəri/
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no contradictorio
- Her argument was clear and noncontradictory, making it easy to follow her reasoning.
Examples
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This essay offers such an approach in the hope that it can help depoliticize the academic discussion and provide students, researchers, and policymakers with a far more explicit and noncontradictory conceptual framework of American assimilation.
Academic text (1995) -
How can one demonstrate the reality of a merely noncontradictory idea of pure reason absolutely removed from experience?
Academic text (2017) -
By contrast, in the second Critique, practical reason is able to authenticate what was merely a noncontradictory assumption for theoretical reason, an a priori faculty of freedom, through the immediate awareness of moral commands that Kant imputes to rational deliberation.
Academic text (2017) -
The theory must be noncontradictory to be deemed valid in the scientific community.
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If the rules are noncontradictory, everyone will understand and follow them without confusion.
Synonyms
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3.3
Agreeing with something else and not contradicting it
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6.6
A set of ideas that do not say opposite things
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6.0
No one says a statement is wrong
Does not conflict with other statements and fits the facts
Free from argument or disagreement
Antonyms
How Consistent
Surface Forms
Morphology
noncontradictory = contradictory (transparent) = non + contradict + ory
The negative prefix 'non-' transparently negates the meaning of 'contradictory' to express the absence of contradiction.
Etymology
Noncontradictory is built from the parts non- 'not', contra- 'against', and dict 'say', as in dictionary. So it means 'not saying things that go against each other', which is why a noncontradictory statement is clear and consistent.