Word Meanings - PARADOX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. A gloss there is to color that paradox,

Additional info about word: PARADOX

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. A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable. Hooker. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. Shak. Hydrostatic paradox. See under Hydrostatic.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PARADOX)

• Riddle
• Puzzle
• enigma
• ambiguity
• problem
• paradox

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PARADOX)

• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine

Related words: (words related to PARADOX)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• PARADOXURE
  Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat . See Musang.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• RIDDLER
  One who riddles .
• PROBLEMATIC; PROBLEMATICAL
  Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful. -- Prob`lem*at"ic*al*ly, adv. Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers. Swift.
• PARADOXIDES
  A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.
• PROBLEMATIST
  One who proposes problems. Evelyn.
• PARADOXY
  1. A paradoxical statement; a paradox. 2. The quality or state of being paradoxical. Coleridge
• ENIGMATICALLY
  Darkly; obscurely.
• PARADOXICAL
  1. Of the nature of a paradox. 2. Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions. Southey. -- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ness, n.
• ILLUMINE
  To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.
• INSTRUCTION
  1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
• PARADOXAL
  Paradoxical.
• INSTRUCTER
  See INSTRUCTOR
• ILLUMINEE
  One of the Illuminati.
• PUZZLE-HEADED
  Having the head full of confused notions. Johnson.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• GRIDDLE
  W. greidell, Ir. greideal, greideil, griddle, gridiron, greadaim I 1. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes. 2. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.
• REILLUMINE
  To illumine again or anew; to reillume.
• MISINSTRUCT
  To instruct amiss.
• UNRIDDLE
  To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery. Macaulay. And where you can't unriddle, learn to trust. Parnell.