Associations to the word «Contradictory»
Noun
Wiktionary
CONTRADICTORY, adjective. That contradicts something, such as an argument.
CONTRADICTORY, adjective. That is itself a contradiction.
CONTRADICTORY, adjective. That is diametrically opposed to something.
CONTRADICTORY, adjective. Mutually exclusive.
CONTRADICTORY, adjective. Tending to contradict or oppose, contrarious.
CONTRADICTORY, noun. (logic) Any of a pair of propositions, that cannot both be true or both be false.
Dictionary definition
CONTRADICTORY, noun. Two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time.
CONTRADICTORY, adjective. Of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms".
CONTRADICTORY, adjective. That confounds or contradicts or confuses.
CONTRADICTORY, adjective. In disagreement; "the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley.
CONTRADICTORY, adjective. Unable to be both true at the same time.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.