contradictory

  • (s) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false
    • "perfect" and "imperfect" are contradictory terms
  • (s) that confounds or contradicts or confuses confounding,
  • (s) in disagreement
    • the figures are at odds with our findings
    • "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley
    at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory,
  • (s) unable to be both true at the same time mutually exclusive,

Nouns

  • (n) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time

Synonyms

confounding at odds conflicting self-contradictory mutually exclusive

Words of close approximity