SkyfireDict

contradictory   (TTS Sound)

The noun contradictory has 1 sense

• contradictory -- (two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time)

The adj contradictory has 4 senses

• contradictory -- (of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms")


• confounding, contradictory -- (that confounds or contradicts or confuses)


• at odds, conflicting, contradictory, self-contradictory -- (in disagreement; "the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley)


• contradictory, mutually exclusive -- (unable to be both true at the same time)