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View synonyms for paradoxical

paradoxical

[ par-uh-dok-si-kuhl ]

adjective

  1. having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
  2. Medicine/Medical. not being the normal or usual kind:

    Stimulants are a paradoxical, albeit effective, medication used for certain forms of hyperactivity.



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Other Words From

  • par·a·dox·i·cal·ly adverb
  • par·a·dox·i·cal·i·ty [par-, uh, -dok-si-, kal, -i-tee], par·a·dox·i·cal·ness noun
  • non·par·a·dox·i·cal adjective
  • non·par·a·dox·i·cal·ness noun
  • ul·tra·par·a·dox·i·cal adjective
  • un·par·a·dox·al adjective
  • un·par·a·dox·i·cal adjective
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Example Sentences

Assigning more lawyers to a problem can cause a paradoxical decrease in the accuracy of the outcome.

From Slate

"So it’s almost paradoxical that these are utilitarian goods," Josh Clarkson, a professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati, told The Washington Post.

From Salon

That seems to be what life is about, it's a big paradoxical thing.

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But those themes do not satisfy certain paradoxical values that also make up the conservative mindset: a rather irreligious appetite for worldly possessions, and the desire for a pseudo-empirical justification for greed.

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It’s a little paradoxical, but we invented by trying as much as we could to maintain the spirit of truth.

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