Paradoxical is valid Scrabble Word

Is paradoxical a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
23 points in Scrabble
26 points in WWF

Definitions for PARADOXICAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

of the nature of a paradox, also PARADOXAL
seemingly absurd or self-contradictory
Of the nature of a paradox.
Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions.
seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
of the nature of a paradox

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

of the nature of a paradox; inclined to paradoxes

Words related to PARADOXICAL

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Words that contain PARADOXICAL

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How to use PARADOXICAL in a sentence

But the few laws our Founder has left are given in the form of striking precepts, brief, and often even paradoxical.
Irving has shrunk from no opinion, however paradoxical.
From this point of view history becomes less puzzling and paradoxical.
This is precisely the paradoxical aspect which much of our civilization presents.
I may, perhaps, preface my observations with the paradoxical remark that the first great celebrity I ever saw I just missed seeing.
The way to do it, paradoxical as it may seem, is genuinely not to care whether you are doing it or not.
Moreover, he was a man of whom it could be said, paradoxical as it may seem, that he was never known to be drunk nor ever known to be sober.
Paradoxical as it may sound at first to most people, nice things are, in the main, things that are good for us, and nasty things are poisonous or otherwise injurious.
To do so, would be most paradoxical on my part, who was born a slave and spent the first nine years of my life in that most unnatural condition.
Doing so, you certainly get rid of the paradoxical conclusions which my wretched scepticism sometimes suggests to me, as throwing a doubt on the integrity of our principle.

No recorded word of our Lord better illustrates than does this the startling and paradoxical manner of His teaching.
They are like children so stupid as to notice nothing paradoxical in the playful assertion that a door is not a door.
They seem to be eminently adapted for illustrating the profound, the unexpected, and almost paradoxical character of the methods which I have just attempted to sketch.
And so the words of Socrates, which at first sounded paradoxical, come home to the experience of all of us.
The answer which is given by Plato is paradoxical enough, and seems rather intended to stimulate than to satisfy enquiry.
In the first case, the title of the treatise would be paradoxical.
I shall have occasion to point out later that Shaw is, in one very serious sense, the very opposite of paradoxical.
The meaning of the word paradoxical may indeed be made the subject of argument.
It may be somewhat paradoxical to say so, but it appears to us that the poetry of Mr.
The rights of women are the rights of human beings, and no special concern of a writer on woman and womanhood, paradoxical as the assertion may be.
Unless she clung to her effort, and to her paradoxical much-disappointed hope, her life and the thought of what she had done with it would become unendurable.
Paradoxical as the assertion may seem, he was too much like the Puritans to do them justice.
It was a paradoxical consequence of his suppression of egotism that he was more solicitous to show that you were wrong than that he was right.
That may seem to be a paradoxical statement, but if the reader will study carefully some of the men he knows, he will understand that this is the truth.
The figures reflect changes in the paradoxical section of the scale of values, and express scarcity rather than wealth.
Rose was paradoxical and whimsical, and was apt to support fantastic positions with apparent earnestness.
But these are fantastic and paradoxical ideas, which only serve to show the vicious refinement of this fastidious ruffian.
Certain remarks of Laplace himself bring into strong relief the profound, the unexpected, the almost paradoxical character of the methods I have attempted to sketch.
The Sagoths could not understand these seemingly paradoxical instructions, though their purpose was quite evident to me.
Why, oh why, do we go on talking? We ask the question in all seriousness, not merely in the hope of making some cheap paradoxical fun out of the answer.
To carry that bold, paradoxical design into execution, sufficient funds and apt instruments became necessary.
These paradoxical appearances in the history of genius present a curious moral phenomenon.
It is almost paradoxical to think of human beings in a civilized country living such lives, people who have great possibilities within their reach.

Similar words containing DOXIC without suffix al and without prefix para

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