Paradox is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARADOX in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something which is contrary to conventional opinion
• a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true
• a statement or proposition which, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems logically unacceptable or self-contradictory
• a person or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities
• person or thing made up of contradictory elements
• A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.
• (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a statement seemingly contradictory or absurd yet perhaps true

Words related to PARADOX

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How to use PARADOX in a sentence

• And thus we are led to see where the solution of a great problem and apparent paradox of geology may lie.
• And by a paradox his salvation depended upon his being strong enough to bring himself to ruin.
• It is no paradox that to free the slaves to-morrow would restore health to the South and regenerate its people.
• So might one go on, piling figure upon figure and paradox upon paradox, to little profit.
• The more we reflect upon this apparent paradox, the more shall we feel it to be true.
• They refer to the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
• All that was pagan in him worshipped the Republic as men worship a woman, and all that was Catholic in him understood the paradox of Our Lady of Victories.
• The same paradox would have led him to maintain that a Warwickshire man had more reason to be proud of Stratford-on-Avon than of Birmingham.
• That this is no paradox let the cave-drawings of Altamira, or such works as the sketches of horses found at Bruniquel and now in the British Museum, bear witness.
• The apparent paradox is due to its depth, and to the union of these seemingly diverse roots in Love.
• And yet, it seems to me, the paradox only exists because we will not face facts in a commonsense manner.
• It may seem a paradox to say that the lessening of our people must naturally mean the increase of insanity.
• As the book went on, I saw I was on firm ground, and the paradox was dropped.
• That is the peculiarity and paradox of Christian faith.
• If at first sight this assertion appears to be less a truth than a paradox, let any candid inquirer look into his own life and he shall find abundant confirmation therein.
• It is a perfect paradox, if a paradox only means something that makes one jump.
• The paradox of his political career was no less curious.
• Secondly, it must be noted as a kind of paradox, the power of the symphony as a national utterance is increased by a mastery of the earlier classics.
• This is no paradox, gentlemen, but quite simply the fact.
• It is the false paradox and heresy of this present age to claim for her as a glory, the right to leave her sphere.
• It was when this religious function was transferred to the god of pantheism that the paradox and impossibility of the reform became evident.
• Herein lies the explanation of that paradox in religious feeling which attributes sin to the free will, but repentance and every good work to divine grace.
• They are so greedy of paradox, that they, in fact, aspire to be Christians and infidels at the same time.
• The second sounds a more violent paradox than even the first.

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