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Word Meanings - CONTRADICTIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. Milton.

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  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • OPPOSITIVE
    Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
  • OPPOSELESS
    Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
  • INCONSISTENTLY
    In an inconsistent manner.
  • OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
    Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
  • INCONSISTENTNESS
    Inconsistency.
  • OPPOSABLE
    1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
  • CONTRADICTORY
    1. Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent. "Contradictory assertions." South. 2. Opposing or opposed; repugnant. Schemes . . . contradictory to common sense. Addisn.
  • OPPOSE
    1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance
  • OPPOSITISEPALOUS
    Placed in front of a sepal.
  • OPPOSITION
    The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180ยบ; -- signified by the symbol
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • OPPOSITENESS
    The quality or state of being opposite.
  • INCONSISTENT
    1. Not consistent; showing inconsistency; irreconcilable; discordant; at variance, esp. as regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory. Compositions of this nature . . . show that wisdom and virtue are far
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • OPPOSITELY
    In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
  • OPPOSITE
    1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
  • OPPOSER
    One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.
  • OPPOSITIPETALOUS
    Placed in front of a petal.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • REOPPOSE
    To oppose again.

 

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