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contradictional

contradictional adjective: contradictory; inconsistent; opposing.

Adjective

contradictional (comparative more contradictional, superlative most contradictional)

  1. contradictory; inconsistent; opposing
    • We have tri'd already , & miserably felt what ambition worldly glory & immoderat wealth can do, what the boistrous & contradictional hand of a temporall1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC

Forms of contradictional

comparativemore contradictional
superlativemost contradictional

Origin of contradictional

From contradiction + -al.

Questions about contradictional

What does contradictional mean?
Contradictional means contradictory; inconsistent; opposing.
What part of speech is contradictional?
Contradictional is an adjective.

Words near contradictional in the dictionary

  1. contradictingly
  2. contradictings
  3. contradictio in terminis
  4. contradiction
  5. contradiction in terms
  6. contradictional
  7. contradictionary
  8. contradictionism
  9. contradictionless
  10. contradictionlessness
  11. contradictions

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