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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Contradictory \Con`tra*dict"o*ry\, a. [LL. contradictorius: cf F. contradictoire.] 1. Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also mutually contradicting; inconsistent. ``Contradictory assertions.'' --South. 2. Opposing or opposed; repugnant. Schemes . . . contradictory to common sense --Addisn. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Contradictory \Con`tra*dict"o*ry\, n.; pl {Contradictories}. 1. A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety. It is common with princes to will contradictories. --Bacon. 2. pl (Logic) propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: contradictory adj 1: of words so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms" 2: that confounds or contradicts or confuses [syn: {confounding}] 3: in disagreement; "the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley [syn: {at odds(p)}, {conflicting}, {self-contradictory}] 4: unable to be both true at the same time [syn: {mutually exclusive}] n : two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time
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