paradoxical
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
paradoxical
- Having self-contradictory properties.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, book II, ch 2
- It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. When properly explained and understood, it is almost self-evident.
- 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book 2, ch 4
- It sounds paradoxical, but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man.
- 1933, H. P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald, Out of the Aeons
- It was tightly fitted with a cap of the same substance, and bore engraved figurings of an evidently decorative and possibly symbolic nature - conventional designs which seemed to follow a peculiarly alien, paradoxical, and doubtfully describable system of geometry.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, book II, ch 2
- (having self-contradictory properties): oxymoronic, self-contradictory
- (having self-contradictory properties): self-consistent, self-evident
- French: paradoxal
- German: paradox
- Italian: paradossale, assurdo
- Portuguese: paradoxal
- Russian: парадокса́льный
- Spanish: paradójico, paradojal
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