cross-purpose

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Noun
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cross-pur=pose

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cross-purpose has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

cross-purposen. 
  •  A counter or opposing purpose; a contrary aim; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.  Shaftesbury.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas.  Pepys.  [1913 Webster]
To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.

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