- 1互相矛盾的、自相矛盾的
Two statements, beliefs, or pieces of evidence are contradictory when they pull in opposite directions so that they cannot both be true, or cannot both be right at the same time. “The door was locked” and “she walked straight in” are contradictory if we mean the same door at the same moment. People also call a person contradictory when they keep saying one thing and doing another, though that use is a little looser — it means they do not line up, not always that a could prove a clash. The word is common in school, news, and argument. It is stronger than “different”: two ideas can be different and both fine; contradictory ones fight. There is a rarer noun, a contradictory, for a statement that another, but almost all will meet the adjective.
From the word’s history
Borrowed from Late Latin contradictorius, from contradico; contradict + -ory.
借自晚期拉丁文 contradictorius「反駁的」。
組成Borrowed from Late Latin contradictorius, from Latin contradico (to speak against). Equivalent to contradict + -ory (having the nature of).
同家族的字
- contradictto say the opposite; the verb this adjective comes from
- contradictionthe clash itself; same family
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
contradictoryadj/ˌkɒntɹəˈdɪkt(ə)ɹi/
- 1
That contradicts something, such as an argument.
- This wide variety of genuinely contradictory holy sutras generated a serious problem in later Chinese and Japanese Buddhism. In the early period the Chinese and Japanese did not know that there were so many schools of Buddhism which disagreed with one another. Chinese and Japanese Buddhists assumed that every single Buddhist sutra was the actual words of the Buddha himself. As a result, Chinese Buddhists had to come up with some kind of explanation for the contradictory claims and assertions apparently made by the same holy person. The Chinese T’ien-t’ai school decided that the texts were spoken by the Buddha but tailored to different audiences of vastly different capabilities and insight.
- 2
That is itself a contradiction.
- Our attitudes toward sharks are contradictory. We fear them and yet we seek them out.
- 3
That is diametrically opposed to something.
- Schemes […] contradictory to common sense.
- 4
Mutually exclusive.
- [White House deputy chief of policy Stephen] Miller has offered contradictory versions of Trump administration statements and court rulings.
- 5
Tending to contradict or oppose, contrarious.
contradictorynoun/ˌkɒntɹəˈdɪkt(ə)ɹi/
- 1
human-scienceslogicmathematicsEither of a pair of propositions, that cannot both be true or both be false.
- If one proposition is the negation of another, it follows trivially from the definition that the two propositions are contradictories. The converse does not hold. Two propositions can be contradictories without either being the negation of the other. For example: 3) John is more than six feet tall and 4) John is either exactly six feet tall or else less than six feet tall are contradictories, but neither is the negation of the other. Negation is one way, but not the only way, of forming a contradictory.
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