| 词汇 | self-contradictory |
| 释义 | self-contradictory adjective formaluk /ˌselfˌkɒn.trəˈdɪk.tər.i/ us /ˌselfˌkɑːn.trəˈdɪk.tɔːr.i/ expressing one thing that is the opposite of another thing that was already said; saying two things that cannot both be correct: 自相矛盾的 He is described as a Texas oil millionaire and environmentalist, which might appear to be self-contradictory.他被描述为得克萨斯州的石油大亨和环境保护者，这看来可能有些自相矛盾。 Denying & contradicting abnegate abnegation breath burst someone's bubbleidiom contradictorily counter-argue debunk deniable deny disabuse disagree dispute make (a) nonsense of somethingidiom myth-buster myth-busting non-acceptance non-recognition recant refute speak for yourselfidiom Examples of self-contradictoryself-contradictory This constitutes the aporia or self-contradictory result of the criminal's implicit claim of permission to an unlimited liberty. The term "dynamic equilibrium" is self-contradictory, since an equilibrium state cannot be dynamic, as no net flow of energy or matters exists. The existing bibliography is riddled with inaccuracies, confusions, unchecked assertions and self-contradictory claims, repeated in successive works. Despite being self-contradictory, and rendering all evidence for attendance at the court inherently unstable, these are not entirely implausible conjectures. It may sound plausible, but in fact it is self-contradictory. However, what constituted race for him was really a self-contradictory medley of inherited traits and environmental in_uences. It would be self-contradictory to create will without creating knowledge and to create knowledge without creating life. One should say this about statutes that are neither self-contradictory nor ambiguous. The basis for the first is the intuition that the idea of an agent money pump is self-contradictory. The majority of philosophers, however, as well as many other people, dispute this and declare that the idea of something psychical being unconscious is self-contradictory. This was a governing practice that was often self-contradictory-and in fact could work only by maintaining such contradiction. Rather than serving as curious outposts of a bizarre and self-contradictory religion, mission schools were supported by those who understood their moral, social and humanistic utility. Once this credo is clearly stated, the self-contradictory and self-stultifying implication of the program should be clear to the potential reader, who will undertake the reading at his own risk. The humor here emerges from the inversion of the standard assumptions that advice is beneficial; the state of affairs invoked - misleading advice - is self-contradictory, literally an impossible description. Some provisions were open-ended and self-contradictory. See all examples of self-contradictory These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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