| 单词 | paradoxical |
| 释义 | paradoxical (pærədɒksɪkəl ) adjective If something is paradoxical, it involves two facts or qualities which seem to contradict each other. Some sedatives produce the paradoxical effect of making the person more anxious. We were a team of individuals–as paradoxical as that sounds. Synonyms: contradictory, inconsistent, incongruous, ironic paradoxically (pærədɒksɪkli ) adverb [usu ADV with cl/group, ADVERB with verb] Paradoxically, acceptance of this apparent injustice is the beginning of empowerment. ...a growing up that paradoxically involves remaining a child, too. Collocations: paradoxical effect This is because taking it for too long can have the paradoxical effect of making bones more brittle. Times, Sunday Times (2015) His line gave the paradoxical effect of being at once tentative and confident. Times, Sunday Times (2012) And yet this reliance on the East had a paradoxical effect. SPICE: The History of a Temptation (2004) This paradoxical effect is uncanny, which is why the wolf is more disturbing than any other predator. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Some sedatives produce the paradoxical effect of making the person more anxious, excited or aggressive than he or she was in the first place. Know Your Own Mind (1991) I have a somewhat paradoxical attitude to scenes of protesters being carted off by the police. Times, Sunday Times It seems somewhat paradoxical, then, that he lived for most of his life as an effective bigamist. Times, Sunday Times As such, the term post-scarcity economics may be somewhat paradoxical. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 自相矛盾的 Japanese: 逆説的な |
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