English-Portuguese translations for contradictory

• contraditório
  É completamente contraditório. It is completely contradictory.
  Trata-se de algo essencialmente contraditório.That is inherently contradictory.
  Há vários parágrafos que são contraditórios. Numerous paragraphs are contradictory.
• contrário
  Devia, assim, evitar emitir o sinal contrário, conduzindo uma política contraditória. It should therefore avoid sending the opposite signal and conducting a contradictory policy.
  Para o atingir, foi preciso conciliar muitos interesses contrários e fazer muitas concessões. Many concessions had to be made and many contradictory interests reconciled in order to attain it.
  Estas posições de sinal contrário deram origem a diferentes interpretações do carácter da União. Such contradictory signals have given rise to differing interpretations as to the nature of the Union.

Definition of contradictory

• That contradicts something, such as an argument
• That is diametrically opposed to something
• Mutually exclusive
• Either of a pair of propositions, that cannot both be true or both be false

Synonyms

• incompatible

Related words

• contradict
• contradiction
• self-contradictory
• contradictoriness
• contradictorily
• autocontradictory
• contradiction in terms
• contradictory (to the original) newer statement
• proof by contradiction