Contradictoryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌkɒntɹəˈdɪkt(ə)ɹi/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA: /ˌkɑntɹəˈdɪktəɹi/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /ˌkɒntɹəˈdɪkt(ə)ɹi/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˌkɔntɹəˈdɪkt(ə)ɹi/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˌkɒntɹəˈdəkt(ə)ɹi/, [ˌkɔ̟ntɹəˈdəkt(ə)ɹi]
• ハイフネーション: con‧tra‧dic‧to‧ry

形容詞

contradictory (comparative more contradictory, superlative most contradictory)

1. That contradicts something, such as an argument.
   • 2004, Robert Zeuschner, “Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism”, in Asian Thought: Traditions of India, China, Japan & Tibet‎, volume I, Echo Point Books & Media, LLC, published 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 225:

     This wide variety of genuinely contradictory holy sutras generated a serious problem in later Chinese and Japanese Buddhism. In the early period the Chinese and Japanese did not know that there were so many schools of Buddhism which disagreed with one another. Chinese and Japanese Buddhists assumed that every single Buddhist sutra was the actual words of the Buddha himself. As a result, Chinese Buddhists had to come up with some kind of explanation for the contradictory claims and assertions apparently made by the same holy person. The Chinese T’ien-t’ai school decided that the texts were spoken by the Buddha but tailored to different audiences of vastly different capabilities and insight.

2. That is itself a contradiction.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 149:

     Our attitudes toward sharks are contradictory. We fear them and yet we seek them out.

3. That is diametrically opposed to something.
   • 1715 January 24 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 7. Thursday, January 13. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:

     Schemes […] contradictory to common sense.

4. Mutually exclusive.
   • 2025 April 18, Henry Gass, “Amid deportation dispute, Trump and courts square off on who has last word”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     [White House deputy chief of policy Stephen] Miller has offered contradictory versions of Trump administration statements and court rulings.

5. Tending to contradict or oppose, contrarious.

同意語

• opposite
• (mutually exclusive) incompatible

派生語

関連する語

• contradict
• contradiction
• contradictorious

名詞

contradictory (plural contradictories)

1. (logic) Either of a pair of propositions, that cannot both be true or both be false.
   • 2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 1, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, §4, page 20:

     If one proposition is the negation of another, it follows trivially from the definition that the two propositions are contradictories. The converse does not hold. Two propositions can be contradictories without either being the negation of the other. For example:
        3) John is more than six feet tall
     and
        4) John is either exactly six feet tall or else less than six feet tall
     are contradictories, but neither is the negation of the other. Negation is one way, but not the only way, of forming a contradictory.

下位語

• negation

参考

• oxymoron
• paradox