Synonym: at odds, conflicting, confounding, mutually exclusive, self-contradictory. Similar words: contradiction, contractor, victory, on the contrary, contract, contrary, contrast, contributor. Meaning: [‚kɑntrə'dɪhtərɪ /'kɒn-] n. two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time. adj. 1. of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false 2. that confounds or contradicts or confuses 3. in disagreement 4. unable to be both true at the same time.
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121) The author firstcomplains of his being charged both with espousing the doctrines of Spinoza,and with being a Deist, two opinions directly contradictory to each other.
122) Thus, this opposition spirit of Galsworthy actually is a contradictory proposition in the text.
123) For Jung, dualism and monism were not mutually contradictory and exclusive, but complimentary aspects of reality.
124) Dacher Keltner at the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that it is the "feeling that the environment is giving insufficient or contradictory information".
125) It has been a triple error, he has been contradictory, rebellious and facetious.
126) In the field in rem, equity at the lower level is not contradictory with efficiency.
127) This attitude was quite common in Johnson's day and was not contradictory to the lexicographer himself.
128) The dilemmas arise in the gray area where the national consensus is itself vague or contradictory.
129) In the finishing passes, two contradictory factors should be compromised for a given accuracy of the Level 2 model in order to achieve the proper product quality.
130) The contradictory roles of adenosine A 2 a receptors: protection or aggravation?
131) Present I am having the tranquil center impetuousness, also is tracking down the impetuous center tranquility, is contradictory still.
131) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
132) Nothing gets done because too many actions hinge on too many other contradictory actions.
133) Hydrogen-power fuel cell is made up of the anode, the cathode and the electrolyte, and it belongs to the contradictory equipment of the water electroanalysis.
134) This attitude is not contradictory to the social democratic value of labour government and the idea of the "third way" , and could be explained by the theory of social democracy.
135) No doubt that contradictory obsession has early roots, but its most potent adult influence was probably my first job out of college, at a small brokerage firm in downtown Manhattan.
136) He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in rapid succession.
137) The essence of design system is a problem of solving contradictory performance criteria ( CPC ).
138) And yet these people are unable to find any contradictory data from the unstudied areas.
139) Taoist school and Taoism's ideas were an encyclopedical system and have self - contradictory content.
140) The political psychological state of Creole Elite Class in the process of Spanish American Independent Movement was contradictory and complex.
141) Her charm, intelligence and her incest are all complex and contradictory.
142) They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds.
143) If you don't have the missing link, you would find that this is contradictory.
144) There are no basic contradictory between the economic principle of "efficiency priority and give consideration to justice" and the law principle of "equity priority in law value".
145) The materialistic dialectics that any thing is the contradictory entity.
146) Both the supply and the demand is a pair of contradictory, from real estate market demand, home-textile look into the living needs, improve demand, investment demand and speculative demand.
147) Many borrowers complain they get the runaround when they call their lenders for help, receive contradictory information from different employees and are required to repeatedly fax the same documents.
148) War report has to deal with contradictory information: some good news about the enemy-side, its actions or intentions, as well as some criticism about one's own side, its actions or intentions.
149) The contradictory of the internal law personality discrimination and external image uniformity between franchisor and franchisee has initiated the new question of external responsibility assumption.
150) The explosive images and conjunctions, often contradictory, are reductive and then romantic.
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