Found 3 hits - Term: paradoxical, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
paradoxical \par`adox"ical\ pa^r`.ado^ks"i^kal, a.
1. of the nature of a paradox.
1913 webster
2. inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to
received opinions. --southey.
1913 webster -- par`adox"ically, adv. --
par`adox"icalness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
par`adox"ically par`adox"icalness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
paradoxical
adj : seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true; "it
is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than
walking" syn: self-contradictory
see also:
self-contradictory
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
49 moby thesaurus words for "paradoxical":
abnormal, absurd, ambiguous, ambivalent, anomalous, antinomic,
baffling, barred, bewildering, closed-out, conflicting, confusing,
contradictory, contrary to reason, disproportionate, enigmatic,
equivocal, excluded, hopeless, illogical, impossible, improbable,
incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible,
incomprehensible, inconceivable, incongruous, inconsequent,
inconsistent, inconsonant, ironic, irreconcilable,
logically impossible, mysterious, not possible, out of proportion,
oxymoronic, perplexing, preposterous, problematic, prohibited,
puzzling, ridiculous, ruled-out, self-contradictory, unimaginable,
unthinkable
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