paradoxical

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paradox + -ical

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• (Birleşik Krallık) IPA^(anahtar): /ˌpæɹəˈdɒksɪkəl/
• (ABD) IPA^(anahtar): /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑːksɪkəl/

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paradoxical (karşılaştırma more paradoxical, üstünlük most paradoxical)

1. paradoksal
   • It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. When properly explained and understood, it is almost self-evident.

     — Adam Smith, 1776, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
   • It sounds paradoxical, but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man.

     — H. G. Wells, 1898, The War of the Worlds
   • It was tightly fitted with a cap of the same substance, and bore engraved figurings of an evidently decorative and possibly symbolic nature - conventional designs which seemed to follow a peculiarly alien, paradoxical, and doubtfully describable system of geometry.

     — H. P. Lovecraft; Hazel Heald, 1933, Out of the Aeons