📖 Definitions of "Paradoxical"
adjective
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Having self-contradictory properties.
🔄 Synonyms of "Paradoxical"
3 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| incomprehensiblenoun | Impossible or very difficult to understand. |
| inexplicablenoun | Impossible to explain; not easily accounted for. |
| self-contradictory | Containing multiple claims or ideas that are inherently in disagreement; of something or someone that contradicts itself. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Paradoxical"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| self-contradictory | Containing multiple claims or ideas that are inherently in disagreement; of something or someone that contradicts itself. |
| incomprehensible | Impossible or very difficult to understand. |
| inexplicable | Impossible to explain; not easily accounted for. |
| contradictory | That contradicts something, such as an argument. |
| paradoxnoun | An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa. |
| ambivalent | Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings. |
| conflicting | Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory. |
| fallacious | Deceptive or misleading. |
| specious | Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious. |
| inconsistent | Not consistent: |
| absurd | Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly. |
| odd | Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected. |
| strange | Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation. |
| controversial | Arousing or likely to arouse controversy. |
| bizarre | Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way. |
| puzzling | Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing. |
| illogical | Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning. |
| surprising | Causing surprise. |
| perverse | Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted. |
| ironic | (of a situation) Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony. |
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