contradictory

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noun two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time
adjective of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false
adjective that confounds or contradicts or confuses

Borrowed from Late Latin contradictorius, from Latin contradico. Equivalent to contradict + -ory.

The two theories are not contradictory. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide
The same faculty cannot produce contradictory effects. — The Republic, Plato
All sorts of contradictory orders were issued. — In Freedom's Cause : A Story of Wallace and Bruce, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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