Paradoxical \Par`a*dox"ic*al\ (p[a^]r`[.a]*d[o^]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] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
paradoxical
adj : seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true; "it
is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than
walking" [syn: self-contradictory]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
self-contradictory
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