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ambivalence | The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. The law s ambivalence about the importance of a victim s identity. |
anachronism | A person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age. It is anachronism to suppose that the official morality of the age was mere window dressing. |
antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. Love is the antithesis of selfishness. |
conflicting | On bad terms. Conflicting opinions. |
contradiction | A combination of statements, ideas, or features which are opposed to one another. The second sentence appears to be in flat contradiction of the first. |
contradictory | A contradictory proposition. Politically he exhibited contradictory behaviour. |
converse | Engage in conversation. Parental and filial are converse terms. |
discrepant | Not compatible with other facts. Widely discrepant statements. |
disobedient | Unwilling to submit to authority. Larry was stern with disobedient employees. |
dissentient | Disagreeing, especially with a majority. Dissentient voices were castigated as hopeless bureaucrats. |
dissonant | Unsuitable or unusual in combination; clashing. Irregular dissonant chords. |
enemy | A personal enemy. The enemy shot down four helicopters. |
incompatible | Not compatible. Long hours are simply incompatible with family life. |
inconsistency | The quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts. The inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour. |
inexplicable | Incapable of being explained or accounted for. Left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons. |
inharmonious | Not forming or contributing to a pleasing whole; discordant. An inharmonious negative state of mind. |
ironic | Using or characterized by irony. An ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely. |
irony | Witty language used to convey insults or scorn–Jonathan Swif. The irony is that I thought he could help me. |
oppose | Be resistant to. A workers movement opposed the regime. |
opposing | Facing; opposite. On the opposing page there were two addresses. |
opposite | Characterized by opposite extremes completely opposed. The literal is the opposite of the figurative. |
outmaneuver | Defeat by more skillful maneuvering. The English troops outmaneuvered the Germans. |
oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true). |
paradox | A statement that contradicts itself. Cathedrals face the paradox of having enormous wealth in treasures but huge annual expenses. |
paradoxical | Seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true. It is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking. |
perverse | Showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable. Films depicting behaviour which seemed perverse or deviant were seen as more suitable for private therapy than for public consumption. |
refractive | Capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave. The refractive characteristics of the eye. |
refractory | (of a person or animal) resistant to infection. The refractory period of a muscle fiber. |
sarcasm | Witty language used to convey insults or scorn. She didn t like the note of sarcasm in his voice. |
wayward | Resistant to guidance or discipline. A wayward adolescent. |
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