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Contradictory

adjective

Of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false.

That confounds or contradicts or confuses. Synonym: confounding.

In disagreement. Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory. "Contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"

Unable to be both true at the same time. Synonym: mutually exclusive.

noun

(pl. contradictories)

Two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time.

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"Contradictory" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the most dissimilar things, the most unforeseen, the most contradictory, the most incongruous; it is merciless, without sequence or connection, full of inexplicable, illogical, and contradictory catastrophes, such as can only be classed as miscellaneous facts. This is why ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant

... induced a suitor to sacrifice the honor of his wife as the price of a favorable decision. Wealth and power led to luxury and sensuality, the weaker were oppressed, noble and bishop alike showing themselves proud and tyrannical. There are often two contradictory accounts of the same transaction, and it is impossible to decide where the fault really was, when there seems so little to choose between ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume VI. • Various

... this point. The general appearance of the country denotes a vast flat, with slight depressions; these form extensive lakes during the wet season, and sodden marshes during the dry weather; thus contradictory accounts of the country may be given by travellers according to the seasons at which they examined it. There is nothing to denote large permanent lakes; vast masses of water plants and vegetation, requiring both a wet and dry season, ...

— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker

... by the repeated avowal of the unfaithfulness of the woman he loved, it was because he had always made the observation and experience of others give way to the dominance of his own insight. No array of contradictory facts ever shook his belief or unbelief; like all egotists, he accepted them as truths controlled by a larger truth of which he alone was cognizant. His simplicity, which was but another form of his egotism, was so complete as to baffle ordinary ...

— Drift from Two Shores • Bret Harte

... busied with contradictory thoughts and feelings, the soldier who stood sentinel upon his quarters announced to the Marquis that two persons desired to speak ...

— A Legend of Montrose • Sir Walter Scott

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