Many paradoxes are paradoxical only because they sound strange.
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Paradoxical
//ˌpæɹəˈdɒksɪkəl//
Synonyms for "paradoxical" (57 found)
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Related words (28)
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11 entriesderived from
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5 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 20 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- պարադոքսային adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Catalan
1 entries- paradoxal adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 自相矛盾的 adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Dutch
1 entries- paradoxaal adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Finnish
1 entries- paradoksaalinen adj (having self-contradicting properties)
French
1 entries- paradoxal adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Galician
1 entries- paradoxal adj (having self-contradicting properties)
German
1 entries- paradox adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Hungarian
1 entries- paradox adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Italian
2 entries- assurdo adj (having self-contradicting properties)
- paradossale adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Japanese
2 entries- 逆説の adj (having self-contradicting properties)
- 逆説的な adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Kazakh
3 entries- парадоксалды adj (having self-contradicting properties)
- парадокстық adj (having self-contradicting properties)
- әдеттен тыс adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Latvian
1 entries- paradoksāls adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Polish
1 entries- paradoksalny adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Portuguese
1 entries- paradoxal adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Russian
1 entries- парадокса́льный adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Spanish
2 entries- paradojal adj (having self-contradicting properties)
- paradójico adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Swedish
1 entries- paradoxal adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Turkish
1 entries- paradoksal adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּאַראַדאָקסיש adj (having self-contradicting properties)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
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The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects. They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
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To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.
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