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- mutually opposed or inconsistent互相对立的; 互相矛盾的：
the two attitudes are contradictory.
这两种看法是相互矛盾的。
1.1
- containing elements which are inconsistent or in conflict矛盾的：
the committee rejected the policy as too vague and internally contradictory.
委员会认为此项政策过于模糊并且自相矛盾, 于是否决了它。
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- Logic (of two propositions) so related that one and only one must be true【逻】（两个命题）互相矛盾的。比较CONTRARY.
派生词
contradictorily
adverbcontradictoriness
noun词源
late Middle English (as a term in logic denoting a proposition or principle which contradicts another)： from late Latin contradictorius, from Latin contradict- 'spoken against', from the verb contradicere （see CONTRADICT）.