contradictiveadj.
/kɒntrəˈdɪktɪv/ 1. Of contradictory quality or tendency.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > [adjective] > having quality or character of
again-sayingc1475
contradictious1604
contradictory1605
contradictorious1608
contradictional1641
contradictive1641
contradictorial1644
abnutive1682
Collyweston1875
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [adjective] > showing contradiction
contradictory1533
contradictive1641
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 54 The consecrating of Temples, carpets, and table-clothes, the railing in of a repugnant and contradictive Mount Sinai in the Gospell.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 346 They are not contradictive to the Canon.
1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino iv. 6 This Passive Sham..The Dream of Contradictive Loyalty, Which makes Men suffer first, and then obey.
1840 Blackwood's Mag. 48 280 Greek philosophy..exhibits a continual contradictive illusion moving before its philosophizings.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [adjective] > engaging in controversy, disputatious
unpeaceablec1384
disputative1579
disputablea1616
disputeful1631
controversial1638
controversal1641
obstreperous1641
contradictive1643
disputing1645
controverting1646
chop-logicala1652
disputatious1660
argumentative1667
argumentive1668
disputant1671
contradictiousa1677
disceptatious1682
obstropolous1727
disceptatorial1821
contradictory1891
backtalking1938
the mind > language > statement > objection > [adjective] > pettily or unfairly > given to
contradictive1643
contradictiousa1677
contradictory1891
1643 E. Symmons Loyall Subj. Beliefe 82 They were of such contradictive spirits, that, etc.
1672 O. Walker Of Educ. ii. iii. 249 Neither maintain an argument with..contradictive persons.
1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. viii. 69 No Nation..(except our late contradictive spirits) that express not their joy and mirth by it [dancing].
Derivatives
contraˈdictively adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > [adverb] > of contradictory quality or tendency
contradictively1842
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [adverb] > in contradictory terms
contradictorily1605
self-contradictingly1653
contradictiously1698
contradictively1842
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 123 To write contradictively and unintelligibly.
1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions iii. ix. 300 The very same claim is contradictively put forth by his Competitor.
contraˈdictiveness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun] > incongruity, inconsistency
inconveniencec1460
contradiction1613
inconveniency1662
contradictiousness1664
contradictedness1670
inconsequentness1727
contradictoriness1733
inconsequence1817
contradictiveness1829
inconsequentism1829
inconsequentiality1832
1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 26 311 This..gives a character of contradictiveness to the exhibition.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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