Adjective 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"
Antonym: synonymous (indirect, via antonymous)
- confounding, contradictory - that confounds or contradicts or confuses
Antonym: supportive (indirect, via unsupportive)
- 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
Antonym: consistent (indirect, via inconsistent)
- contradictory, mutually exclusive - unable to be both true at the same time
Antonym: compatible (indirect, via incompatible)
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Noun contradictory has 1 sense
- contradictory - two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time
--1 is a kind of logical relation
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