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contradictious

contradictious adjective: filled with contradictions; contradicting; inconsistent.

Adjective

contradictious (comparative more contradictious, superlative most contradictious)

  1. (obsolete) Filled with contradictions; contradicting; inconsistent.
    • The police prosecutor hammered at him and the bench had a go at him, and they commanded from him such a madhouse particularity between the distinctions of looking and seeing that Bradly was reduced to imbecility, and so contradictious were his mutterings that he was openly suspected of trying to...1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 89
  2. (obsolete) Inclined to contradict or cavil.
    • If he had taken a contradictious tone on purpose to draw Mrs. Luna out, he could not have elicited more of the information he desired.1885–1886, Henry James, The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC

contradictious meaning in Urdu

contradictious in Urdu

خلاف گو

Forms of contradictious

comparativemore contradictious
superlativemost contradictious

Words formed from contradictious

Questions about contradictious

What does contradictious mean?
Contradictious means filled with contradictions; contradicting; inconsistent.
What is contradictious in Urdu?
Contradictious in Urdu is خلاف گو. See Contradictious meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is contradictious?
Contradictious is an adjective.

Words near contradictious in the dictionary

  1. contradictionism
  2. contradictionless
  3. contradictionlessness
  4. contradictions
  5. contradictions in terms
  6. contradictious
  7. contradictiously
  8. contradictiousness
  9. contradictive
  10. contradictively
  11. contradictiveness

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