Self-contradictory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Self-contradictory \Self`-con`tra*dict"o*ry\, a.
     Contradicting one's self or itself.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  self-contradictory
       adj 1: seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true; "it
              is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than
              walking" [syn: {paradoxical}]
       2: 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},
           {contradictory}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  104 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-contradictory":
     aberrant, abnormal, abroad, absonant, absurd, adrift, all abroad,
     all off, all wrong, ambiguous, ambivalent, amiss, anomalous,
     antinomic, askew, astray, at fault, awry, barred, beside the mark,
     closed-out, contradictory, contrary to reason, corrupt, deceptive,
     defective, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative,
     disproportionate, distorted, equivocal, errant, erring, erroneous,
     excluded, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, heretical,
     heterodox, hopeless, illogical, illusory, impossible, inauthentic,
     incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible,
     inconceivable, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent,
     inconsequential, inconsistent, inconsonant, invalid, ironic,
     irrational, irreconcilable, logically impossible, loose,
     nonscientific, not following, not possible, not right, not true,
     off, off the track, out, out of proportion, oxymoronic,
     paradoxical, paralogical, peccant, perverse, perverted,
     preposterous, prohibited, reasonless, ridiculous, ruled-out,
     self-annulling, self-refuting, senseless, straying, unauthentic,
     unconnected, unfactual, unimaginable, unorthodox, unphilosophical,
     unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, unthinkable, untrue, wide,
     without reason, wrong