| Pronunciation: | | `paru'dâksikul
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| Matching Terms: | | paradoxical sleep, paradoxically
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| | Definition: | | [adj] seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true; "it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking" |
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| | Synonyms: | | incomprehensible, inexplicable, self-contradictory |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Par`a*dox"ic*al\, a.
1. Of the nature of a paradox.
2. Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to
received opinions. --Southey. -- {Par`a*dox"ic*al*ly},
adv. -- {Par`a*dox"ic*al*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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