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antinomic

antinomic adjective: exhibiting or pertaining to antinomy; contradictory.

Adjective

antinomic (comparative more antinomic, superlative most antinomic)

  1. Exhibiting or pertaining to antinomy; contradictory.
    • Their reasoning, the judge wrote, was that it would be antinomic for the F.B.I., charged with fighting crime, to employ as an informer a murderer as vicious and prolific as Greg Scarpa.2007 November 3, Jim Dwyer, “A Prosecution Goes Bad, and a Judge Lets Loose”, in New York Times

Forms of antinomic

comparativemore antinomic
superlativemost antinomic
alternative formantinomical

Origin of antinomic

From antinomy + -ic.

Words formed from antinomic

Questions about antinomic

What does antinomic mean?
Antinomic means exhibiting or pertaining to antinomy; contradictory.
What part of speech is antinomic?
Antinomic is an adjective.

Words near antinomic in the dictionary

  1. antinomial
  2. antinomian
  3. antinomianism
  4. antinomianisms
  5. antinomians
  6. antinomic
  7. antinomical
  8. antinomically
  9. antinomies
  10. antinominalism
  11. antinominalist

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