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self-contained |
self-contained underwater breathing apparatus |
self-contemplation |
self-content |
self-contradiction |
self-contradictory
| self-control
| self-controlled
| self-convicted
| self-conviction
| self-created
self-contradictory
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective self-contradictory has 2 senses
- self-contradictory(s = adj.all) paradoxical - seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true; "it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking"
- self-contradictory(s = adj.all) at odds, conflicting, contradictory - in disagreement; "the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"
THESAURUS
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
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