Definition of Contradictory

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Contradictory

Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.

Opposing or opposed; repugnant.

A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety.

propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity.

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Contradictory Quotations

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
Robert Collier

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew Carnegie

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
Emma Goldman

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Charles Baudelaire

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
Robert De Niro

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Karl Von Clausewitz

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
Timothy Radcliffe

Contradictory Translations

contradictory in Spanish is opuesto

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