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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151) Mr. Jobs, who founded Apple with Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976, began his career as a seemingly contradictory blend of hippie truth seeker and tech-savvy hothead.
152) He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in a rapid succession.
153) Torpedo Guidance and Control System (TGCS) is a complicate and contradictory information decision and control system with a certain fuzziness.
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154) In the field of edge detection, the noise reducing and edge localization are contradictory parts and are regarded as an ill-posed problem.
155) The inculpation in objectivity is the most contradictory problem which exist in the crime of holding a huge amount of property with unidentified sources.
156) Observing the numerous conclusions about the territorial division of dialects in the "Fang Yan", we realized they had been extremely different and often contradictory.
157) Postmodern brings a vaguous dual heritage to the psychology and thus metatheory will unavoidably confront many uncontrollable and contradictory difficulties.
158) Semantic faulty wording or formulation includes discollocation, duplicated semantics, semantic ambiguity, semantic indistinct, and semantic contradictory.
159) National questions is the contradictory social problems between nationalities ( Minzu ) caused by culture diversity, benefits or class imparity.
160) System theory that researches system approach is lodged as the contradictory of deoxidize approach.
161) The authors suggest rationalizing the financial costs of children reduces cognitive dissonance, or the tendency for people to resolve contradictory thoughts.
162) Now Joseph Campbell said something else about following you bliss that may sound contradictory.
163) The data calculated by the use of resonance energy and tension energy show that the unstability of cyclobutadiene and cyclooctatetraene are not contradictory with resonance theory.
164) The philosophical thinking pattern possesses metaphysical, limitless, introspective, abstract and contradictory features.
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